Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), is currently being criticised over his “tweeting on WhatsApp,” comment.
While addressing youths of the party at a rally which held in Lagos at the weekend, Tinubu, who is a presidential aspirant, had said social media users could tweet on WhatsApp.
“Do you know how many of you are tweeting on WhatsApp right now? [intelligible] holds a database of 1.6 billion on WhatsApp alone,” he said
He failed to correct himself and specify that WhatsApp is a messaging platform owned by Meta and its estimated users stood at two billion as of the end of 2021.
On the other hand, Twitter is a microblogging platform used by politicians, journalists, businesses, and everyday citizens to comment on emerging issues and causes.
Tinubu made the controversial comment while decrying how Nigeria has not been able to harness its full potential in the area of modern technology.
He had said he would fix the problem if elected, but in a backlash, some Social Media users knocked the former Lagos, asking if he who could not distinguish between the two dominant platforms could fix such problem.