As at press time, Nairaland, Nigeria’s indigenous virtual forum is the third trending subject of discussion on Twitter in Nigeria with over 6,500 tweets NEGROIDHAVEN has confirmed.
The reason for the trend is because Nigerian netizen are requesting that the forum be upgraded beyond just being a forum. But, the founder, Seun Osewa is reportedly declining.
According to Osewa, while reacting to the queries said: ‘I’ve had my current profile mentioned unfavourably on this app a couple of times. What’s wrong with it?’
The replies he got bothered on him failing to upgrade Nairaland created since 2012 like other social sites. @Idahosaejalen observed thus: ‘It’s like you have even abandoned your own Nairaland platform for twitter. It wouldn’t be out of place to tailor that platform to have similarities with twitter. Instagram was quick to roll out reels cos of tiktok. The Chinese rolled out Weibo cos of twitter.
Nairland…???’ @ta_yo_jackson corroborated the first observation ‘Naira land did not innovate and they got left behind’. @donmiccollo said ‘Why have you refused to upgrade Nairaland?! Every single day, we see new innovations on Twitter, from fleet to space, messaging, picture posting and all. But Nairaland has remained the same was it was since I started using it in 2012.’ @oduwe_ugo noted ‘The only issue I have is how Nairaland has remained the same for years. Previously when people used small phones with little data to manage it was understandable. Now everyone uses a smartphone, Nairaland needs an upgrade, a mobile app. Remember how Nairalist faded away.’ To all these numerous observations, Osewa replied ‘Thanks for your feedback.’
Nigerians have requested that Osewa would eventually explain why he is refused to innovate Nairaland, NL at least to a mobile app.
However, the observation has been made that why Nigerians still love the forum is because of the privacy it accords its user.
According to @StatiSense, Nairaland’s page views in the last six months are as follows: August 2021 — 220.6 million, September 2021 — 209.5 million, October 2021 — 203.4 million, November 2021 — 195.2 million, December 2021 — 190.6 million, January 2022 — 188.9 million’.
