Just 17 Days: Buhari’s Twitter Followers Already Over Half Of Jonathan’s Twitter Account Created 4 Years Ago

The @ThisIsBuhari Twitter handle of General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has amassed over 63,000 followers in just seventeen days.

By contrast, President Goodluck Jonathan’s @JGoodlucktweets, which is four years old, has just about 86,000 followers.  
Jonathan created his Twitter account exactly 1,634 days ago, on July 6 2010, and now has 86k followers.  The account appears to have stopped growing, as it has been in the region of 86k since he declared his run for a second term a few weeks ago.
Buhari’s account was created on Dec 22, and had by the afternoon of January 7,2015, amassed a following of 63k.


It is also of interest that in the past four years, President Jonathan has tweeted only 129 times, about two tweets per month.  His last tweet appeared on November 11, 2014.
In comparison, Buhari has tweeted 192 times in his 17 days on Twitter.
Buhari’s running mate, Yemi Osinbajo, also got into Twitter few weeks ago, on December 10, and his followers are now up to 25,000. 
Vice President Namadi Sambo, who is also running for a second term, has an even older Twitter account than President Jonathan’s, but although his account was created in February 2010, he has only 3,188 followers.
When running for office in 2010, President Jonathan was very active on Facebook and Twitter, which he used to lure younger voters.