After a glee from the head of the opposition party .. Sudanese are abandoning Facebook to Twitter

Ahmed Fadl - Khartoum

Slowly, Twitter seems to be a new arena for the political conflict in Sudan, in the face of Facebook's other social platform. After the new prime minister came to power, the Twitter platform became a platform for political debate.

The leader of Sudan's opposition Congress Party, Omar al-Deqeir, surprised the pioneers of Twitter by asking for a debate with Prime Minister Moataz Moussa when he wrote the following tweet on October 28: "Mr. Moataz Moussa is active through communication and other means to present his policies and publish (his) And avoid the issues that are most important and influential in the reality of the comprehensive crisis that I have created (the rescue), invite him to an open debate on what he is proposing? "

On the other hand, Moussa also apologized via Twitter for running the debate; on the pretext that the time to work, and the government offers its programs through the official media and media as the case.

Because the invitation to the debate on Twitter is unprecedented, it has provoked wide reactions among social networking activists, and varied opinions between supporters and opponents.

Type of transparency
Among the opposition activists Abdel Rahman, who wished to reject Moataz Moussa debate, before praising the establishment of a Twitter account, and considered it a kind of transparency. On the other hand, Nizar Mohammed expressed his hope that Moussa would accept the debate to present his executive program.

The buzzer received 731 fans and 178 replies, while the tweet re-published 500 followers.

For his part, Amin Hassan Omar, leader of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), has entered Twitter as an outsider to highlight his views against the re-election of President Omar al-Bashir in the 2020 elections, which he has previously expressed on his Facebook account.

"Angela Merkel has announced her abdication of her party presidency to prepare for a new leadership. She knows that the clock is moving forward, that it will not stop, and that the wise leader is the leader who is going with the cycle of time towards a renewed future on ... Do the leaders ask permission to leave, just as you have been asked to leave?

He was impressed with the amnesty of Ameen Hassan Omar, 295 followers, and returned 105 people, and received 118 followers.

Since the first tweets of the newly-appointed prime minister on Twitter on September 19, the Sudanese have been turning to this unpopular site, unlike Facebook, the dominant populist in Sudan.

Twitter is fast
According to global Internet statistics, about 2.6 million Sudanese are subscribing to Facebook as of December 31, 2017, out of a total of 11.8 million Internet users.

Sudan's statistics are not available on Twitter from within the Sudan, in comparison with the US boycott of which Sudan does not appear within the Twitter geographic locations. This has led the Sudanese to lead a campaign since last month to strengthen their presence on this site and try to figure out how many are there.

It can be said that the Sudanese Prime Minister moved the Sudanese with him to Twitter in light of the growing interest of large sectors of the site of Twitter rapid established in 2006.

Journalists in Sudan were not keen on Twitter as they were keen to be on Facebook. The editorialist of the Al-Hayat newspaper, Bahaa al-Din Issa, told Al-Jazeera.net that the prime minister's tweets on Twitter were positive and made reporters an important source of news.

Moataz Mousa has been active in his job as prime minister in intensifying appearances on Twitter to preach his activity in dealing with liquidity crises and drug shortages, which has become a heavy material for newspapers.

Despite a campaign of ridicule due to the labeling of "gard_knak_mataz_mousi", in which the geeks ridiculed him for his optimism in difficult economic circumstances, the man did not stop Twitter, and his twitter has so far reached 34 cheers, followed by more than fifty thousand people.

More communication
In response to many requests, the prime minister was forced to announce through his Twitter account the creation of a Facebook account for further communication.

Sudanese blogger Anwar Sulaiman, blogger of Huna Ma, on the Blogger platform, points out that Twitter depends on follow-up, not friendship, as on Facebook, so it allows for more follow-ups. It also relies on the publication of an incoherent manual, In addition to other sites on the Internet.

Before the prime minister's tweets, there were rare Sudanese surfers on Twitter, unlike the world's most popular, where the site was known to accounts of celebrities of politics, sports and art all over the world, write down the latest news and answer the questions of the hour.

Prior to Mu'taz Moussa's tweets, the monarchs continued intermittently with statements by ministers Hatem al-Sasser and Ibrahim al-Mirghani, reflecting little on their activities in the government.