Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett

only see ourselves through external sources, whether as images in mirrors, pixels on the screen, or words on the page, words of love from a mother, words of hate from an ex-lover. ) Long before Furo’s story became my own, I was already trying to say what I see now, that we are all constructed narratives.
    @pweetychic_tk: Friday, 22 June
    09:45 | This thing is getting real. It’s now 4 whole days since my big bro #Furo got lost. See his missing ad in today’s (cont) http://tl.gd/ktdfkbt
    09:53 | I’m still disgusted at how the Christian Taliban twisted my #COCK tweet yesterday. It was just a joke – GET IT? #hypocrites
    09:54 | 4 all the #hypocrites who attacked me, I now have 1856 followers! Eat your hearts out!
    10:32 | WHAT have I done to this one AGAIN??? => @Nu9jaYoots
    10:41 | @Nu9jaYoots Who dash you #YOOT Leader? You can’t even bloody spell! #mschew
    10:52 | By their tweets we shall know them, Twitter #YOOT Leaders. With achieve-nothings like YOU no wonder PDP has a 68 y/o grandpa as Youth Leader!
    10:55 | Why am I even wasting my time? For my new followers, abeg see my next hashtag.
    10:57 | #Furo #Furo #Furo #Furo #Furo #Furo #Furo #Furo #Furo #Furo #Furo #Furo
    10:59 | RT ‘@lazyeyedben: @pweetychic_tk Who is Furo?’ YOU don’t know? And to think you were my Twitter crush! You’re dumped! * stomps away *
    11:06 | :-) RT ‘@lazyeyedben: @pweetychic_tk * singing * Please don’t go, don’t gooo …’
    11:42 | I love Twirrer.
    11:42 | Facebook is sooo yesterday.
    11:43 | RT ‘@Lurv_Facts: Women are biologically attracted to a-holes because their traits resemble those needed for survival in the wild.’
    11:44 | Retweets are NOT endorsements!
    11:49 | I just lost 3 followers. WTF. Why can’t I get to 2000???
    14:49 | For those who haven’t seen this yet, here’s my big brother’s missing advert in today’s newspaper: twitpic.com/yjs75Np #Furo
    17:30 | God I LOVE this picture! twitpic.com/bzR76on via @JimmyChooLtd
    17:31 | I’ll gladly endure the pain of wearing a tight pair of shoes … if it looks good LOL.
    20:03 | I’m not pregnant. That’s a relief.
    20:40 | _|_ (-.-) _|_ to @emem_1987 & @anpasticru
    20:42 | Twitter is beginning to piss me off sha!
    20:44 | Some RATS don’t know when to choke on their evil thoughts @emem_1987 @anpasticru
    20:45 | I came here to look for my missing bro. Every other thing is dirt off my shoulder.
    20:49 | This! RT ‘@lazyeyedben: I’m digging your style @pweetychic_tk. Don’t mind the olofofos.’
    20:49 | THANKS @lazyeyedben! You’re such a cool dude!
    21:04 | Co-sign => RT ‘@Rihanna: The one person you can’t run from is YOU!!!’
    21:05 | I ♥ @Rihanna! #justsaying
    21:15 | Mum & Dad have returned. Mum is crying again. My life is so not fun right now.
    21:41 | OMG!!! Mummy wants to go to the mortuary 2moro to look for Furo!!!
    22:17 | 2moro is officially the worst day of my life. #goodnight
    My handle is @_igoni and I was born into the Twitter stream in January 2009. Apart from tweeting links to my online publications as well as other articles I’d enjoyed reading, I didn’t have much to do in my short existence. Until, that is, I found @pweetychic_tk and, through her, @efyouaruoh. Furo’s Twitter page displayed as its profile photo an image of sunglasses-wearing Neo from The Matrix , and the profile name was ‘FW’, while the bio read, ‘Lagos-based job hunter,’ and so, if not for his sister’s tweets, @efyouaruoh would have remained a cipher for ever vanished into the dead-end alleys of the Web, just another one of hundreds of millions of unverified Twitter handles with a meagre following and a preference for the pseudonymous; and, to boot, a digital persona whose final breath was drawn at 00:13 on 18 June. ‘Nepa bring light abeg,’ he tweeted, and then nothing ever again. Silence, on Twitter, is as good as death, and if life hadn’t intervened to bring us together on the day after his final tweet, I might never have found myself