BUSINESS NEWS - Cellular giant MTNhas announced that it will stop offering customers free Twitter usage on midnight this coming Tuesday.
“After providing free Twitter to millions of subscribers for an unprecedented four years, MTN’s industry-first free Twitter service will come to an end at midnight on 25 September,” a statement issued by the company said.
Twitter users immediately came up with the hashtag #RIPFreeTwitter, voicing their feelings about the change, as well as the hashtag #MyLastWordsToFreeTwitter which saw MTN subscribers flex their senses of humour.
Popular parody account @AdvBarryRoux was among those who weighed in.
MTN to end free Twitter
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Posted on: 07:40 Tue, 25 September 2018
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