The sheer randomness is so much so that currently there is a chat battle between participants typing the word “anarchy” and participants typing the word “democracy” to control the game. Twitch saw that and placed a bar depicting the battle in the video stream. Basically, there are now two modes to Twitch Plays Pokemon, anarchy and democracy. Anarchy is the mode we’re all familiar with — all inputs in the chat are taken and immediately applied. Democracy on the other hand uses a “vote” system — the system takes the most popular input every few seconds and only applies that one. Players can vote to switch between modes at any moment. If Democracy mode gets voted in, Red’s movement is then collectively determined by the players.

“The mode that isn’t active needs 75% of votes as indicated by the dotted line, the current percentage of votes is indicated by the black line,” the FAQ on the stream’s chat states.

The channel’s creator said that TwitchPlaysPokemon will run indefinitely in the hopes that the crowd-sourced game will see it’s Elite Four defeated. There’s a huge lag between a chat message and the resultant input, so even if all 75,000 players are agreed on what needs to be done, a combination of lag and duplication may not help players achieve that goal anytime soon.

The stream has accrued 13 million views and the participant numbers rise drastically at peak hours, even reaching 80,000 simultaneous players at one point. In an article about TwitchPlaysPokemon Kotaku outlines how it’s possible that any progress is being made in the game with so many participants and technical difficulties, it’s worth a read if you are curious.

First, a background. Flappy Bird is a game for iOS and Android that has recently gone viral in the last few days. The game was developed by Vietnamese developer, Nguyen Ha Dong.

To advance in Flappy Bird, you have to tap the screen to navigate the bird between Super Mario-like pipes. After each pipe, you get a point. It drives people crazy.

What’s amazing about this game however, is that some users have managed to play for so long and have reached scores of over 2 billion. Yes. 2 billion pipes.

Flappy Bird For Android

Flappy Bird For iOS

Paper allows you to navigate through your news feed item-by-item with the swipe of a finger. Images appear full-screen with accompanying captions  and you can pan from left to right simply by tilting your device. To put things in a better context, the app poses as a radical change in  how users view status updates, photographs and videos posted by friends.

Videos in your news feed also appear in full-screen and play with captions overlaid in a similar way to images. At the bottom of each page are “like”, “comment” and “share” icons.

In all, the app takes away all the clutter that comes with Facebook (That clutter which also includes the ability to view events) and just gives you those features you use most of the time and can possibly drive some users to never open the Facebook app ever again.

Source: The Verge

In today’s world of selfies, lategrams and #ThrowbackThursday, your filter choice on Instagram can say a lot about you. Are you the type to go au naturale because you see no need? Or do you overdo the filters and even add HDR to give it a boost because you can never have too much colour?

Whatever your filter choice is from ‘#nofilter’ to Hefe, this infographic tells you what your filter choice says about you. Do you think it’s accurate? Let us know!

Source: Marketo

HBO has announced the premiere date of the 4th season of Game of Thrones. The medieval-style hit show is to return to screens on the 6th of April at 9PM eastern time(3AM in Nigeria. The Season 3 finale saw 6.3 million viewers and made Game of Thrones the most pirated TV show of 2013.

When we last saw Game of Thrones, a large part of House Stark had been wiped out after Robb’s wedding. Leaving Sansa, Arya, Bran and Rickon orphans. The Lannisters are still in charge while Stannis Baratheon and Melisandre decide not to kill Davos.

Outside the seven kingdoms, Daenerys is still the mother of dragons and now 10,000 unsullied. Jon Snow returns to the wall after knowing a lot of nothings.

Game of Thrones is based on the books from A Song of Ice and Fire – a trilogy by George R. Martin.

Source: Variety, IMDB

YouTube Nigeria has released a list of the most watched videos in the country.

A look at Nigerian favorite music videos in 2013, reveals that songs like Ada Ada by Flavour, Caro by Starboy feat L.A.X & Wizkid, Personally by P-Square, Jaiye Jaiye by Wizkid ft Femi Kuti and Eminado by Tiwa Savage ft Don jazzy were some of the most watched music videos in NIgeria in 2013.

Comedy videos continue to top the charts with videos like The Interview by NdaniTV and Lagos Big Girl’s Game by VideoHitsShow’s featuring as two of the most watched videos in 2013.

Globally, the world watched the The Fox more than 265 million times, making it the top trending video of 2013. Viewers also made it a top searched Halloween costume. The global public turned out in record-setting numbers to see Psy’s post-Gangnam Style performance on his latest video – Gentleman. And YouTube users made more “Harlem Shake” videos than there are people in Manhattan.

Here are the Top 10 Videos For Nigeria In 2013(excluding music).

1. Last Flight To Abuja – The full movie (Nollywood Movies 2013)
2. Civil Defence Commandant Can’t Tell His Organisation’s Web Address
3. EDIDI-(The Bond) – Latest Yoruba Movie 2013 Starring Iyabo Ojo
4. Stella Damasus and Senator Yerima on Al-Jazeera Network THE STREAM
5. The Leaked Video Of Gen. Diya Oladipo Pleading With Gen. Sanni Abacha – Oputa Panel
6. THE LAGOS BIG GIRL’S GAME ( Reanne Opia)
7. Bling!
8. How to get married; “Naija” style by Toke Makinwa
9. The Interview – A tale of Frank Donga
10. Nigeria – Burkina Faso | CAN Orange 2013 | 21.01.2013

The Top 10 YouTube Channels show that Nigerians are finally beginning to stream movies. 5 out of the channels are nollywood channels. The top channels are:

1. AYTVAYTV
2. channelsweb
3. yorubamagic
4. mynaijalove
5. TVnolly
6. nollywod5star
7. ndaniTV
8. DavidoHKNTV
9. Nollywood5ive
10. Officialiyanya

The Top 10 Music Videos Watched By Nigerians

1. Ada Ada [Official Video] by Flavour
2. PULL OVER (OFFICIAL VIDEO) by KCEE Ft. Wizkid
3. Personally by P-Square
4. CARO – (Official Video) by Starboy Ft. L.A.X & Wizkid
5. Jaiye Jaiye (Official Video) by WizKid Ft. Femi Kuti
6. Sexy Mama [Official Video] by Iyanya Ft. Wizkid
7. Eminado [Official Video] by Tiwa Savage Ft. Don Jazzy
8. Stupid love by Olamide
9. Skelewu (Official Video) by Davido
10. Emi ni baller (Official Video) by Chidinma Ft. Tha Suspect & IllBliss

What’s your favorite YouTube video this year? Tell us in the comments!

It was Nigeria’s Independence day yesterday and we know you’re in a nostalgic mood of Faaji. This week, we bring you a mix of videos from the first Nigerian independence celebration, a bit of Nigeria’s founding fathers, senators fighting, blowing some hankum crankum grammar and your favorite King Sunny Ade video.

Nigeria’s Founding Fathers – Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo

Crowds Celebrate Nigeria’s Independence in London in 1960

Nigeria’s 1960 Voting Caught On Camera

Brawl In The Nigerian House of Representatives

Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon Speaks

King Sunny Ade – The Way Forward

Get your groove on this weekend, Seriously

We know Nigeria has problems but hey, we’re able to keep our government running for months after the budget deadline :D.

Sources: The Nigeria History Channel , SaharaTV, Seka Moke, TayoTVvideos

Images: The Nigeria Nostalgia Project

On the 11th of April 2010, Silverbird Television got information  about a marine mammal stranded between Elegushi and Oniru beaches in Lekki, Lagos.

STV’s reporter went to the scene and shot this wonderful collection of new names for whales.

Sea pork and Moses Whale. Whales would be impressed.

Source: Vivienne Irikefe, YouTube

It was meant to be a simple Halloween prank. Everyone laughed about it. Except the Black Guy.

Don’t ever scare a black guy. Seriously.

Rewind to 2009. D’Banj decided to run a reality TV show like Flavour of Love. He’s the Koko Master so he called his the Koko Mansion. In one of the tasks, the housemates are required to present a solution to an array of Nigerian problems. Everything was fine and dandy until Rita came up.

Nigeria are not safety enough.