Another reason to keep up with Twitter!

Do you think your tweets are just tweets?, think again.
Yesterday something came up on twitter, a UK based news website was reporting on the arrival of the English premier league's team Everton in Dar es Salaam city. The article referred the city as the "Fishing Village", in its very first paragraph. It didn't take much time for this to go viral to Tanzanians, starting from twitter when the well known activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai tweeted about this. Many Tanzanians responded on this, most of them being critical of this while mentioning the News website's twitter account. Some people made some jokes out of it.
I wanted to be part of this because I didn't actually get this, why would the website publish an article calling the 4m+ population a fishing village. So I twitted, (quoting Maria's tweet). Thanks to her for retweeting it, this made it to get few likes and other retweets. After few ours of people engaging on the issue, someone tweeted that, the website had edited it's article replacing the phrace "Fishing village" to coastal city, yeap! the noises worked and saved the bad image this article/website was going to paint our major city.
All this ended well today morning when someone tweeted a link to an article from another news website, Africanews.com which wrote about the whole scenario. But not just that, my tweet was one of the tweets that had been quoted and embedded on the article, I used to see this when reading articles and find people's opinions on Twitter are embedded (quoted) ending up asking myself how is this even possible?. Yes It happened today and it has taught me few lessons. Yes! twitter is powerful and this can make what you tweet powerful as well. It is powerful enough to make changes from small ones like making a large news website edit it's article which could mislead readers, to bigger changes like defending the Internet.
This evening I was checking on the twitter's hash tag I tweeted with earlier, #someonetelldailymail I found out more online papers has quoted the tweets . When I was going through it, the first tweet was from a user called @Africa_IsRising, saying
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The part in this paper, EastAfrican that had me mentioned says

The second tweet from the hashtag was from the verified account of The East Afirican themselves
Another tweet was from @LaurenAmeliaD who tweeted an article to one of the largerst African news website AllAfrica.com. "A social media user by the name of Musa took his time to correct Daily Mail by starting a hashtag #SomeoneTellDailyMail Dar es Salaam is not a fishing village, but one of the largest cities in East Africa." the website wrote.

Last one was The Citizen Paper which quote "A social media user by the name of Musa took his time to correct Daily Mail by starting a hashtag #SomeoneTellDailyMail Dar es Salaam is not a fishing village, but one of the largest cities in East Africa."

So I'm excited about all these since it was all for the good and positive course, I just never expected it could turn this way.