Fun as MTN, Nigerian artistes dominate social media space for Val

L: Don Jazzy, MTN MD, Ikpoki & Kcee

MTN brand ambassadors and friends of the leading ICT service provider are currently engaging fans on the social media as a build up towards Valentine, this SHOWBIZPLUS can authoritatively reveal. To confirm the trend that celebrities now prefer using twitter to directly answer questions relating to their life styles, career and family, thousands of music fans are having fun tweeting questions to find out who their favourite artistes are dating, when their next albums are coming out and how they intend to spend their Valentine, via MTN Twitter handle.

Praiz, HarrySong, Kcee, Chindinma and Davido have been hosted on the social networking platform creating a trend as fans relished retweeting their star artistes’ comments or highlights of the discourse.

As well, the curious Nigerian entertainment industry fans had a good time getting direct answers to their questions regarding the artistes. For instance D’Prince who sang ‘Goody Bag’ was asked about what impressed him most in a lady by a female tweeter. The artiste expectedly tweeted back, ‘her selling points’. Aside, he revealed that his role model is Shawn Carter, a.k.a. Jay Z, US popular rapper.

Chidinma popularly called ‘Miss Kedike’ took her time to clear the airs around her relationship status, especially with news trailing the petite actress lifestyles and report connecting her with some of the music industry’s bigwigs.

KCEE and Harrysong who recorded outstanding successes on MTN Callertunez, last year, also held different interactive sessions on the ICT company’s twitter handle. The artistes had an interesting time talking about their songs. ‘Limpopo’, ‘Pull Over’ and ‘Mandela’ formed a major part of the discourse. Also, they provided answers to questions about their trips to the Grammys a fortnight ago.

In the coming days, Iyanya, Davido, Tiwa Savage will be interacting with their fans – taking up questions and tweeting back to clarify complex issues relating to their love lives and careers.

With over 250 thousand followers, the audience on the MTN twitter handle can be considered massive. They have been receiving insights into how to use the ‘Magic Voice’, ‘Voice SMS’ and download their favourite ringtones on Callertunez to help them connect with their loved ones  as expected during this season of love.