The Twitter account of the President of Believers’ Loveworld, Rev. Chris Oyakhilome, has continued to deplete in terms of following. But the cleric may have found a replacement for social network. His page on Yookos, another digital platform, is doing exactly what Twitter was doing for him years back, or even more.
Oyakhilome was the most followed Nigerian on the micro-blogging site until last year when he lost the position to
Ayo Balogun (popularly known as Wizkid), whose community has crossed 1.6 million followers. As of May 14, Oyakhilome’s Twitter following was 1.36 million. Between that date and Thursday, it lost about 140,000 to stand at 1.22 million.
While Oyakhilome has not benefited from the recent increase in Nigeria’s Twitter activities, but his following on Yookos is growing very fast. Nowadays, his Twitter followers can only relate with links which are routed to Yookos. Since May 7, 2014, the cleric has not shared any content on Twitter save his Yookos’ link – yookos.com/community/pastorchrislive.
What does he do on the alternative site? He preaches, announces prayer appointments and harvests testimonies/prayer points. While his popularity on Yookos has been growing, recording thousands of views per post, those who follow him on Twitter are left in the cold.
In fact, Yookos has become Oyakhilome’s new virtual church, replacing the position of its sensational television broadcast. Comments on his home page on Thursday were 30,009.
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, is the most active Nigerian pastor on Twitter. But his posts are strictly religious. He has not deviated from that path.
On Thursday, Adeboye posted, “For as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. This is the evidence that Jesus was the son of God. That is why the spirit led him into the wilderness.”
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