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Effect Of Twitter Ban On Political Campaign
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LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The limitations of this study includes:
Finance:
Due to the economic difficulty that the researcher was experiencing,
the prospect of a greater sample size, which would have enabled the
study to reach a larger region, has become impossible; thus, this work
is limited to only Uyo Local Governemnt in Akwaibom State.
Time: It
was not surprising that the researcher was limited by time frame as it
posed a direct challenge to the effective coverage intended in the
course of this report. It is the intention of the researcher to
interview all the political party members of the selected State but
because of numerous activities of the researcher which borders on both
academics, work schedules and other social activities it became
relatively impossible to explain the intention hence party members of
PDP in Uyo senatorial zone was enrolled as participant of the study.
Attitude
of respondents: The majority of members fail to collect the
questionnaires, and some who do collect pay urgent attention required in
filling and returning it, and others did not return theirs at all.
Others were less accommodating and may have provided untrustworthy
information because they were afraid of being exposed, despite the
researcher's promise that all information would be treated with the
utmost secrecy and only for education purpose.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Twitter:
Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on
which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered
users can only read them.
Twitter Ban: this is the authoritative
pause in the operation of twitter as mandated by the Federal government
of Nigeria on June 5th 2021 until the owners of the social network meet
the newly established requirement given to them by the government of
Nigeria.
Political Campaign: A political campaign is an organized
effort which seeks to influence the decision making progress within a
specific group. In democracies, political campaigns often refer to
electoral campaigns, by which representatives are chosen or referendums
are decided
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