Kenyan blogger, Robert Alai, praised for live-tweeting terrorist #WestgateAttacks

One of the most followed Africans on Twitter, Kenyan tech blogger, Robert Alai, has been live-tweeting the Kenyan terror attacks since they began on Sunday Saturday, providing Kenyans and the world alternative on-the-ground coverage of the events. Alai’s live-tweets according to some of his followers on the social media platform, were fresh content while the regular media kept repeating the same stories.

Alai, is the founder and blogger of one of Kenya’s tech blogs TechMtaa, and according to his Twitter profile, “a social media strategist, consultant and marketer”. On Twitter, he has more than 83,000 followers and has tweeted more than 100,000 times.

Alai has been praised for the live coverage with some leading African business people, such as Trevor Ncube and Arthur Goldstuck African leaders that have praised Alai for his coverage. Of course it’s not all been praise, with some Twitter users calling for him to stop the coverage as some of the unverified information may be incorrect.

Source: Epoch Times