Africa needs own Twitter or risk silencing its social media heavies
If Twitter becomes a hotbed of “angry white men,” as some have put it, and everyone else takes flight, social media heavies could see their large audiences vanish, and their voices reduced to a whimper. PHOTO | FILE
South African-born entrepreneur and innovator Elon Musk has been making a lot more waves than usual after he clinched a deal to buy the microblogging site Twitter for an eye-watering $44 billion.
Musk, the man behind the hot electric car Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, is a bit of a complex creature. He’s very progressive on issues like climate change, and liberal on many social issues, but has some very disturbingly right-wing political views.
