Microblogging platform, Twitter today, Wednesday February 23, introduced a GOAT emoji for top users of its platform.
Asides honouring global celebrities, some Twitter also honoured some Nigerian celebrities with customised goat emoji. G.O.A.T is an acronym for “Greatest Of All Time,” which is commonly used in sports when referring to players who are widely considered the most talented.
The celebrities are Wizkid, Davido, Burna Boy, Olamide, Ex-BBNaija stars Whitemoney, Laycon, Erica, Mercy Eke and Tacha. Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari also got the goat symbol.
The goat symbol appears when these celebrities are trending on Twitter or when their names are searched with an hashtag symbol.
Twitter also honoured other global celebrities like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo the emoji.
In other news, popular rapper, Blaqbonez has chosen to investigate who ‘took’ his name on the Video-focused social networking service, TikTok and went ahead to expose him after making his discovery. Read his discovery here