President Goodluck Jonathan hits 100,000 fans on Facebook [updates]
We recently wrote about our President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan joining Facebook to engage Nigerian youth. He has consistently used the platform to communicate with fans on the page and it went from 2,ooo fans at our last writing to a whopping 100,000 today.
With just about 11 comments posted by the president, he got the following comments and likes;
| Comment | Likes | |
| 1139 | 1714 | |
| 1697 | 2369 | |
| 2423 | 3068 | |
| 2594 | 2623 | |
| 2383 | 3061 | |
| 2089 | 2053 | |
| 2128 | 2178 | |
| 2338 | 2469 | |
| 1897 | 1707 | |
| 824 | 898 | |
| 1902 | 1157 | |
| Total | 21414 | 23297 |
That is an average of 1,946 comments and 2,117 likes on each comments. The post is driven mostly of praise singers but more aggressive people are joining the page and asking the president serious questions like the proposed 10billion for the Nigeria at 50 Anniversary and electoral reform.
Any impact so far?
On monday the president announced to rescind his decision to suspend super eagles from international competition qouting some of the comments on the facebook page as the reason for taking the decision. Should we say the president is connecting perfectly with the people? Only time will tell!
During the time of writing this article… another 156 has joined the president’s page making it 100,156!
What is you view so far about the presidents Facebook presence?
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