Who Is GidiTraffic: A Robot?

I feel I should write this little piece for a great person who happens to serve thousands of people round the world. The real great people are not those with special titles, but those who serve others.

How many people remember to visit the web for anything these days? As long as you’re a follower of Gidi traffic. *winks*

Initially I thought Gidi Traffic (GT) was just about lagos traffic but I was wrong, then I was also of the opinion that it’s just about GT and no one else but I was wrong again.

So what am I right about? You’d ask.

Gidi Traffic has made himself/herself (for the purpose of this article, permit me to use ‘him’) a problem solver. How?

Gives updates on Lagos traffic, some followers go through his TL just to be sure of the route to take in getting around. As a result of this, many have been saved from bumper to bumper (B2B) traffic and we get responses like good to go (GTG)

Some ask questions that are not traffic related and GT retweets for the followers, after all 2 or more good heads are better than one *smiles* questions like: “GT I need a 2bedroom flats on the mainland that is affordable”. Some ask technology related questions, Fuel related questions, direction within Lagos, some share their thoughts, some search for jobs, girlfriend/boyfriend, missing loved ones, where to buy different things, telecommunication enquires, some get lost and try to find their way, some look for vendors and so much more.

As long as GT retweets your tweets, you will definitely receive responses from different people, providing answers to your question. Then it occurred to me that its not just GT but the followers also play a major part in this. Thumbs up tweeps!

Guess what? He does all these for free; he doesn’t need to know you from Adam to retweet your tweets (cool, don’t you think?) imagine GT retweeting the tweets of those he knows one on one and none else? Hmmmm

So whats the difference between the popular websites and GT? Online real time. How?

Atimes when you visit the web for information about a particular ‘thing’ oftentimes you get obsolete answers, for instance certain companies may fail to update the information on their sites: 2 weeks ago, I needed to obtain a secondary school admission form and brochures for my nephew, so I went to the site, was referred to a couple of banks, I wasted time, effort and fuel by going to 3 different banks but to no avail. If I’d been to GT, I’m sure I would have saved all I wasted. Reason? The School didn’t update the information on her site. And many other instances.

With GT, it is LIVE and DIRECT because it’s not about an obsolete website but about real living people who have the information you’re looking for.

Few days ago someone commended Gidi about his level of patience, saying he answers all questions and retweets all that comes his way, then I remembered what my brother used to tell me years back when I complained about been used(work) by office people. He said

“Have you observed something about the incinerator where people pour dirt? They pour both good and bad stuff right there, go near and watch the kind of stuff that grows there, you would see beautiful flowers, green/nourished grasses and the likes…..allow people to send you on different errands and give you so much to do, they’re simply helping you without knowing”

There are a couple of questions that some of GT’s followers have asked: is GT a female or male. How does GT make money from this? (if he does at all). I will leave these two questions to GT to tackle when he’s ready.

My name is Abisoye, a twitter user who tweets at GT’s handle on twitter and gets very helpful responses from his followers because he helps to retweet my tweets. I have also helped answering some questions which I had answers to and also with traffic updates just like other followers.

I may not be a very good writer as this article would be my first article ever. *smiles* but you’re free to critique it.

Thanks for reading. Eko oni baje oooo