Ruto: Tweets that tell the story of a fall out

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Deputy President William Ruto is increasingly relying on Twitter to get the word out. When he took office in 2013, Ruto had only about 30,000 followers on the bird app, as Twitter is called by a section of Kenyans. The DP was then only posting updates about his official...
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