- Love him or hate him, controversial blogger @Robertalai trends almost everyday. Never afraid of courting controversy, Alai started off as a tech blogger but is now more known for inflammatory remarks on twitter that have landed him on the wrong side of the law. Still, his +60k followers trust his exclusive sources in (real or imagined) news. Hundreds of his fans mention him on their tweets to spread the word.
- Another radio producer, @VinieO is one personality that consistently trends especially after he started his weekly quizzes. His weekly random educational questions elicit interesting reactions. Vinnie also tweets about current affairs and manages the social media for the @TheJam984 show. Vinnie generates a following of 9,724 and 105,110tweets.
Over 40 years
- Businessman Chris Kirubi (@CKirubi) gets people talking when it comes to social media with interesting and thought provoking comments. CK, as he is commonly known, engages regularly with his over 95,000 followers on twitter, advising on business, personal development and finance. He has recently started a weekly convo on twitter – #AskKirubi – to mentor the youth.
- Sunny Bindra is a writer, corporate management consultant and teacher who is passionate about quality customer service and public governance. @Sunnysunwords started the longest trending hash tag #TwitterThumbsUp and #TwitterThumbsDown as a way to acknowledge/ expose services offered by both private and public corporations on twitter. His over 40,000 followers regularly retweet his posts, reaching thousands daily
Mwirigi
June 24, 2013 at 2:49 pm
There are to many people from Capital on that list 🙂
Joe Muchiri
June 24, 2013 at 3:38 pm
*2 LOL
Eric Kariuki
June 25, 2013 at 7:53 am
haha Alai is not Under 40,he is Over 90
Davy
June 25, 2013 at 7:57 am
I agree with this article 100% These individuals made a name for themselves before they signed up for Twitter. The keyword here is “Influential” Not like the other idle jobless kids who think they own Twitter.
nairobian perspective
June 25, 2013 at 8:03 am
i thought the article would feature atleast 40 dudes with ranking according to following
Muthuri Kinyamu
June 25, 2013 at 8:10 am
Nice post all the guys from Capital deserve to be there but where is Jeff Koinange? Dr. Paula Kahumbu? Chief Kariuki? Philip Ogola? Evans Muriu? Syoks?
Above all the intern is really smart….massage a few egos here and there to find her way up!
Augustino Tito
July 18, 2013 at 10:31 am
hehe what of me @Lil_Timo lol??
Izoh
June 22, 2014 at 5:29 pm
Only #SmallWigs are yapping here. If you disagree with her write up your reply or SUUUT UP. good Job Maria