Comments on: NaijaPulse: Microblogging in Nigeria

By: jide Atomori

jide Atomori — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:01:57 +0000

I was excited when i find out about naijapulse through my white african newsletter. I like the twitter -like idea behind it and i hope it stays for years to come. Keep up the good works guys

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By: stevevosloo (Steve Vosloo)

stevevosloo (Steve Vosloo) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:57:18 +0000

Post by @whiteafrican on the first microblogging service in Nigeria http://tinyurl.com/cxcy7s

By: Meryn Stol

Meryn Stol — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:53:30 +0000

This is also interesting: “Automatically subscribe to whoever subscribes to me (best for non-humans)”. They are already thinking seriously about “non-humans” on their service… Maybe microblogging will be the first place were we’ll see AI passing the “Turing test”? In the future, we may be just as happy to read “computed” tweets as those from a human being.

By: Meryn Stol

Meryn Stol — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:41:19 +0000

I like the fact that you can publish your “tweets” under a Creative Commons license. I’d like to see that option on Twitter too.

By: Meryn Stol

Meryn Stol — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:32:35 +0000

I’m not even remotely from Africa, but I feel I need an account to not be missing out.

Erik, do we have any Ushahidi devs from Nigeria?

By: Steve Vosloo

Steve Vosloo — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:48:11 +0000

Great post, thanks Erik. There’s definitely potential here for African microblogging!

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:42:31 +0000

I spotted this on Twitter. Not sure exactly what it is…I suppose its a kind of public Microblogging service. I could post messages and comments without having to register.

http://www.jiba-jaba.com

It allows you to create a unique url for chat streams aswell…judging by the number of posts its still in its infancy but it looks like it could catch on…

By: roballen

roballen — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:44:17 +0000

Nigeria has definately got a big mobile internet user base based upon some stats I’ve seen from a few mobile internet sites. However again this is just another ‘owned social network’ with wide ambitions and that train left a long time ago – The future of niche social networking has to be ‘open source social networks’ owned by the communities they serve.