It definitely is a loss of some significant proposition for Nigeria. In fact, Twitter has already indicated its readiness to immediately fill several roles in product and engineering to design, marketing, and communications in its Ghana base. On all fronts, everything points towards the fact that having Twitter in Nigeria would be of more economic benefits to the country than the adult entertainment services company.
So, there will be questions of what each of them can contribute to the Nigerian economy in terms of employments opportunities, technology transfer and payment of taxes. That is at the rate of 115million visits per day! While the revenue profile of Pornhub isn’t really clear, a report published by Forbes indicated that it received 42 billion visits in 2019. Those in these two categories would see the idea of juxtaposing the prospects and prestige of an organisation like Twitter, said to have gained $3.72 billion as revenue in 2020. Nigeria is a society that thrives on a fusion of the religious and hypocritical. It shouldn’t be surprising that the voice of the embarrassed would be the loudest. These two tweets have generated thousands of retweets and responses expressing emotions ranging from embarrassment, to shock and excitement in different quarters. The reply came 21 minutes later with a logo of the University of Ibadan and no text at all! But you must remember that axiom that, “pictures speak a thousand words.” The message was loud and clear. We know its Nigeria but I’m not sure if its beside lautech, uniilorin or unilag. In the midst of all that, a Twitter user, who must be familiar with the quantity of Nigerian patronage enjoyed by the porn site, tweeted as follows: “how far when una go do headquarters for Africa. Moments after Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, announced the decision about Ghana in a tweet, many Nigerians on the platform started to lament how much of a big loss this was. It also came from what appears to be the official handle of the pornography site. To be sure, no one can tell if this is truly an official position, but the hint came in response to a tweet from a Nigerian Twitter user who seemed to be confident of Nigeria’s pride of place in the porn site’s market share.
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Ponder this irony: On the same day that microblogging site, Twitter, announced the decision to situate its Africa operational base in Ghana (to the chagrin of Nigerians), Pornhub, described as the world’s leading free pornography site, hinted that the University of Ibadan might be its African headquarters.