Fabrice Muamba, the 23 years old Ex-Arsenal and Bolton player collapsed on Saturday night, on the pitch in the F.A. Cup game against Tottenham at White Hart Lane. He was rushed to the hospital. This has raised a lot of dust: prayers, news, concerns, rumours, even racial comments. The biggest of it all is the rumour on social media: facebook, twitter, and Blackberry messenger that Fabrice Muamba is dead! This has resulted to swearing, insults, condemnations, comments and counter comments on the social media.
How did this rumour come about? Today, 18th march at 8.00 pm (UK time) it was on news that Fabrice was clinically dead for two hours. That is, his heart was not beating for a long time possibly 100 to 120 minutes. When the heartbeat stops, a person is said to be suffering clinical death - by definition, but consciousness is not lost until 15-20 seconds later. Up to this point, a person doesn't feel anything about the critical situation. This news was misinterpreted for "Fabrice Muamba is dead" and the rumour started booming on social media most especially twitter
The whole thing was getting interesting on twitter and the reactions were thrilling. It all started with tweets like this:
"@LisaZhengx: R.I.P Fabrice Muanba"
"@jazzley10: R.I.P Fabrice Muamba died 2hours ago aged 23. Pass this on too show respect football fan or not "
"@tha_rodman: heart break....RIP FABRICE MUAMBA"
Instantly retweets and replies started coming in: some of disappointment in the rumour twitters:
"@hsslbnk: The people that made the RIP Fabrice Muamba trend are sick. It's not funny at all. He's not dead, he's still in ITU. #PrayForMuamba"
"@Liam_Roache: The fact 'RIP Fabrice Muamba' is trending has made me feel sick. The lack of respect some people have is just disgusting!"
"@chanellejhayes: Why the hell are people tweeting rip to fabrice muamba when he is still fighting for his life in hospital? Have some f-ing respect ffs!"
Some replies were funny rhetorical questions:
"@damiliicious: Are you guys MAD? He is not dead!"@_do_not_care: you killed him? RT @tha_rodman: heart break....RIP FABRICE MUAMBA"
"@Wolf_II: STFU. Na you kill am? RT @BraeynO: Chai!!! :(. So Fabrice Muamba don kpai! RIP "
"@Paulex2: Ƴ do pple jst post STUPID яandoM comments... He's critically ILL RT @womzylala: R u serz? RT @tha_rodman: heart break....RIP FABRICE MUAMBA"
I got such question too when i joined the bandwagon by posting a R.I.P Fabrice Muamba so as to get the reactions of my followers.
"@NaijaGalWonder: NA YOU KILL AM??? "@sonydoug: Moment of silence for Fabrice.......R.I.P Fabrice Muamba died few hours ago aged 23."
And insults like:
"@maQmillian: @sonydoug can u pls shut ur stinking mouth??? Banana brain!!!"
This one really made me laugh because my avatar on twitter is a picture of my mouth. I was not the only one that got an insult though.
Some other reactions were that of caution, prayer and correction:
"@tosinebaba: Thank you RT @_do_not_care: "Fabrice Muamba's heart condition is stable, but he remains critically ill, HE IS NOT DEAD STOP WIV THE RIP"
"@snekelekozo: @rohan_COYI stop spreading wrong information, Fabrice Muanba is still alive bt critical in hospital!!"
"@AllanStruthers: People complaining about the RIP Fabrice Muamba trend, seemingly totally unaware that they're only contributing to it. #IHateMostPeople"
"@somto_mbah: Fabrice Muamba will pull through in Jesus' name. Amen."
The collapse of Fabrice Muamba issue on twitter resulted to racially offensive Tweet by a 21 years old Swansea Student, Liam Stacey. Liam Stacy had been made to face the law and his tweet may send him to jail. While all were going on reports have it that Fabrice Muamba is critically ill. He is under intensive care and his heart condition is stable. Whatever the drama that has happened on twitter today the good thing is that Fabrice Muamba is still alive and it is my prayer that he comes out alive and strong like Nigerian's Kanu Nwankwo who also was once in his situation.
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