Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
Media reporting on the Nigerian government’s recent banning of Twitter has claimed that the country has 40 million Twitter users. But we suspect the number is far lower.
In recent months, Twitter has rarely been out of the headlines in Nigeria. After it deleted a tweet by the country’s president, the Nigerian government responded by banning it altogether. In the media coverage of the story it has been commonly claimed that Nigeria has 40 million Twitter users – but could this really be true? We spoke to Allwell Okpi of the fact-checking organisation AfricaCheck.
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Producer: Nathan Gower
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