He has less than 1,000 followers but he’s sent out more than 45,000 tweets since joining the social network and his tweets are of the newsy, linked variety like this example:
Obama Taps TV Meteorologists to Roll Out New Climate Report http://t.co/4KsBmn2BeU
— Shadreck Nkala (@ShadreckNkala1) May 5, 2014
With 1,496 followers, Dimitri Kaskus ranks No. 9 on the Twitaholic list. But he keeps his tweets private, so we have no idea what he actually says or looks like. Follow him and maybe you’ll find out.
The Twitter site for a network of election-oriented organizations, ZESN has nearly 3,000 followers and sends out tweets like this one:
A crowd sourcing platform for discussing Zim national issues by Zimbos.Tweets by @SirNige.Highway Africa Award
He has sent out less than 60 tweets since joining the social network, but he still manages to make the top 10 most popular Zimbabweans on Twitter with nearly 3,000 people following him.
Having sent out nearly 67,000 updates since joining, Larry Kwirirayi is one of Zimbabwe’s most prolific tweeters.
The hit music station is another popular one to follow on Twitter. It does a lot of retweets as well as original thoughts.
Another non-person makes the fourth most-followed on the ZimbabweTwitaholic list. The name is derived from Zimbabwe’s country code and the handle’s Twitter description tells its 17,000-plus followers it is a crowd-sourcing platform for discussing Zim national issues by Zimbos.
The third placeholder on our list is not a person but a Zimbabwean mobile phone company tweeting with a hashtag handle. It has 25,000-plus followers. Here’s a recent tweet:
Did you know #TelecelGo removes boundaries, reduces cost of calls to all networks? Dial *737# now to get started #TellSomeone
— #TellSomeone (@Telecel_Zim) May 5, 2014
Ranked 29,709th in the world by followers, the former Big Brother housemate-turned-Bollywood actress Pokello Nare has some 93,000 people reading her tweets.
With 250,000-plus followers, Mufti Ismael Menk is No. 1 on our list. A Muslim scholar, he earned a degree in shariah from the University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia. He is best known for his motivational speaking gigs in South Africa each Ramadan, according to his online bio. Here is a recent tweet:
How often do we make others cry for things that they haven’t done yet they would ignore all our faults just to see us smile?
— Mufti Ismail Menk (@muftimenk) May 5, 2014