Ezra Olubi deactivates X account after old disturbing tweets resurface

Key Points

• Ezra Olubi removed his X account late on Thursday. The move followed screenshots of old tweets going viral.

• Posts appeared to reference minors, bestiality, and STIs. Users shared screenshots widely across X and Instagram.

• Paystack and Olubi had not commented publicly by morning. The account disappearance deepened online debate and suspicion.

Ezra Olubi deactivated his X account after old tweets resurfaced online. The posts, shared late on Thursday, contained graphic and troubling lines.

Screenshots showed tweets that appear to date back to 2011 and 2012. Many lines describe sexual acts and mention disease terms plainly.

Social users said some remarks seemed to sexualise minors and animals. Others noted the posts named STIs including HIV and Hepatitis B.

The swift spread of screenshots quickly drove heated debate online. ValidUpdates tracked Paystack co-founder market loss and other October items for context.

What the screenshots show

Screenshots show tweets that appear to date back to 2011 and 2012. Many lines describe sexual acts and mention disease terms plainly.

Some users said the material seemed to sexualise minors and animals. Others urged caution while researchers and commentators weighed the posts.

ValidUpdates tracked BLord Instagram page deactivation and similar profile breaks in recent weeks. That coverage shows how fast profile gaps and deactivations fuel online debate.

Paystack had not posted an official comment by midday on Friday. Company spokespeople had also not responded to messages seeking clear comment.

Olubi has been a visible figure in Nigeria’s tech scene for years. His public style and posts have often driven online conversation previously.

Some users called for Paystack to explain the posts and actions. Others urged caution and legal limits before drawing firm conclusions.

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That feeling a week after getting fixed. #oldtweets

My kid's ability to spill shit never failed to astonish. Thank God she grew out of this phase. #parenthood #oldtweets

FRANCIS: You on point, Streep?
MERYL: All the time, Pope

#OldTweets

Inside each of us is a little boy, a shy, lovesick girl with a curse, a demon made of fire, and a shape-shifting wizard with no heart. #OldTweets

As I delete my Twitter finally, it seems like the last people who had a chance to follow me here or by discord have finally done so, I thought I'd leave you with some old tweet recording my progress between 2018-2020. Starting with 2018.

Stopped biting my nails.

Told some people my shit and helped them with theirs.

Paid off my car.

Went to more social events and joined more friend groups.

More confident in public... became a bit more weird in public.

#twitter #oldtweets #progress

🧵 of images from random #oldtweets

#oldtweets

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There is also Twitodon. But one of its steps is to log onto your Mastodon account, a step that can't be skipped.

Maybe it provides the option of direct transfer? I don't know. I recognize the necessity of logging into Twitter. No such need exists for Mastodon, so I passed.
3:49 PM · Dec 13, 2022

#oldtweets

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Fedifinder's CSV file is 352 rows (not counting header), while Debirdify's is 312 rows. I suspect Fedifinder is figuring out the accounts Debirdify is unsure of.
3:40 PM · Dec 13, 2022
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Either way, I already added ~210 accounts manually (plus a few that are Mastodon-only) earlier.

So the advantage isn't the uploading, it's that these tools find the 300+ accounts in my 1800+ Twitter Following list. Which was a real pain to look through.
3:44 PM · Dec 13, 2022

#oldtweets
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Anyway, Debirdify does provide a couple of cool graphs, but....

3:36 PM · Dec 13, 2022

#oldtweets (with grammatical error fixed)

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Debirdify is a lot more informative, although what you'd do with that information is the question. Nonetheless, it also downloads a file, accounts_following.csv. It also provides a list of maybe-Mastodon accounts that it wasn't sure of (the URL-style format, I suspect).
3:29 PM · Dec 13, 2022

This is a little redundant on Mastodon, but it could be people are creating Mastodon accounts ab initio. So here are #oldtweets about it:

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I finally tested Debirdify and Fedifinder on my account.

Fedifinder is very no-frills. Log in to your Twitter account, finds Mastodon accounts, downloads a fedifinder_accounts.csv file, and it's done. You log it out of your Twitter account as the last step.
3:27 PM · Dec 13, 2022

#oldtweets

A new species of Schoenorchis #orchid was discovered. Via @BotanicsMan@Twitter.com

https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.575.1.7

#OldTweets Gettin' to know youuuuuu .. Show me yours ...

#TwitterMigration, #NewHere

'Palpatine, how ya gonna defeat the rebels?'
'Gonna build 1 REALLY big gun'
'To capture a planet?'
'Nope! Blow it up!'
'Why?'
*shrug*
#starWars #OldTweets

Throwback to that time I had to fix the USB mass storage dialog because the artwork I had originally drawn was too scary.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/fb37dc8a53c23e9756d75d94346ba2becb61db08

#bestof #oldtweets #android #usb #systemui

#bestof #oldtweets #android #binder #simcity #system_server

ok one more and then I gotta get back to work

#bestof #oldtweets #easteregg #animalcrossing

#bestof #oldtweets #charsequence

#bestof #oldtweets #anr