This Nigerian software developer landed a job at Twitter following a chance meeting with the company's executives during a visit to the country last week
Lagos, Nigeria A Nigerian software developer has landed a job at Twitter following a chance meeting with the company's executives during a visit to the country last week.
Dara Oladosu met Jack Dorsey, who was on a"listening and learning tour" in Africa with other Twitter executives and met with members of Nigeria's tech community and business executives. So grateful to finally be in Nigeria 🇳🇬 — jack 🌍🌏🌎 November 7, 2019 "A friend, Titi, got me a pass to the event Jack was at. She asked if I could make it there and coincidentally I was on leave at work at the time so I made it before the event ended," Oladosu told CNN.Impressed by his work, Dorsey and his team including Kayvon Beykpour, Product Lead and co-founder of Periscope, Parag Agrawal, Chief Technology Officer, and Mike Montano, Engineering Team Lead invited him to join them.
— TSHIMANGADZO October 1, 2019 Oladosu says he got the bot running in December 2018 but had to make a lot of modifications to it because Twitter initially marked it as a spam bot.It eventually became popular in July 2019, and according to him, the bot gets up to 2 million impressions every day. CNN has been unable to independently verify this figure. Quoted Replies also has an Android and IOS app built by Oladosu's friends -- Hamza Fetuga and Abdulhafeez Sagaya.
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