Nigerian tweeps record 86,400 tweets per day

 •Over fuel subsidy protests

Nigerians who have Tweet handles, also known as ‘tweeps’ may have recorded 86,400 number of tweets per day since the last week protest over bad governance in the country ignited by the removal of fuel subsidy.

Just as this figure may have swelled during the two-day rest declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress and organised civil society to restock for the unfolding events this second week of the protest nationwide, saw an increase in the activities on #OccupyNigeria rising from 11,766 as at Friday to 12,957 tweets, which is an average of 1,191 tweets per day.

While Sunday, January 15 and early hours of Monday January 16 witnessed another rise 14,148 to 14,955, according to the TwitterCounter on Monday morning.

Key team member of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) and Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, Mr. Gbenga Sesan, made this disclosure at the weekend, saying that Tweet rate for #OccupyNigeria now averages one (1) tweet per second.

Based on this estimate, it means that in the last one week of protest to occupy Nigeria by members of the organized labour and civil society groups that Nigerians were adding about 60 tweets every minute and when this is multiplied by 60 minutes in an hour, it amounts to 360 tweets per hour.

 

Also, when this is postulated into 24 hours in a day, it would amount 86,400 tweets per day and if added up by the last seven days, the awakening record of 604,800 tweets were contributed by Nigerians using the hashtag #OccupyNigeria for seven days and still continue.

But additional investigation via TwitterCounter statistics, #OccupyNigeria handle has a record of 11,766 followers, which means an average of +143 on average have been added since the protest began on January 9, 2012.

Also, #OccupyNigeria follows 313 an indication that it follows other tweeps on average of +3 ; recording 861 tweets with an average of +10 tweets, thus becoming top 100 twitter users with 35,160 as at Saturday, 14 January 2012 while the usage of its hashtag recorded about 34,869; with 13,911 followers in 15 days, which means it took approximated 58 days to get 20,000 followers.

In a related development, another popular hashtag among Nigerians during the fuel subsidy and occupy Nigeria protest has been #FuelSubsidy with 280,463 views and has 376 followers, whereas following 4 on the average and 40 tweets on the average per day.

Remmy Nweke
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