Monday, May 27, 2013

PHCN Twitter account functioned only 24 hours in 2 years


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The official Twitter handle of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, Eko Distribution Zone, @PHCNEkoZone has only been active for 24 hours since it was created.
An investigation by our correspondent showed that the company’s Twitter account, which was opened on November 3, 2010, became dormant the day after.
Before then, the company had tweeted only one message announcing that it could be followed on Twitter.  “We are now on Twitter,” it said.
Nothing has been posted on the handle, which boasts a following of about 73 people, ever since that time.
 Another handle credited to the PHCN on the social service, @PHCNnigeria, which was opened on April 10, 2011, was active for two days. Afterwards, it became dormant.

 When some Nigerians from various geopolitical zones took to the social media on Friday and Saturday to lament what they called a “near total blackout” in the country, they were disappointed when their tweets to the PHCN account were not replied.
Apparently, the PHCN authorities did not deem it fit to engage the citizenry via its social media channels. But it did not deter the people from starting a buzz around the subjects on a popular online forum known asnairaland.com, with the title: “Nationwide blackout? 24 hours and counting”.
Thus, the two words, “#phcn” and “nepa”, went trending on the social media just as a member of the forum with the name, Digigamage, who resides in Abuja, opened a discussion on the subject at about 6.31am on Saturday.

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