What ever you want to call it; Chance, Luck, Miracle was Oladosu’s meeting with Twitter Boss which Landed this young Nigerian a dream job.

A young Nigerian software developer is thanking his stars as he landed a job at Twitter following a chance meeting with the company’s executives during a visit to the country last week.
Dara Oladosu met Jack Dorsey, who was on a “listening and learning tour” in Africa with other Twitter executives and met with members of Nigeria’s tech community.

Oladosu’s app, Quoted Replies, a Twitter-based bot that helps users collate quoted replies to tweets was mentioned at the event.

Oladosu was not on the initial invite list for the event held at TechpointNG but a last minute invitation ensured he got to meet the Twitter bosses.

“Titi…the person that interviewed me for the Techpoint articles got me a pass to the event Jack was at. She asked if I could make it there and coincidentally I was on leave at work at the time so I made it before the event ended,” Oladosu told CNN.

Impressed by his work, Dorsey and his team including Kayvon Beykpour, Product Lead and co-founder of Periscope, Parag Agrawal, Chief Technology Officer, and Mike Montano, Engineering Team Lead invited him to join them.

“Someone from the audience was talking about the bot when I got to the event. So, when the person finished, Titi introduced me as the developer who built it. I got the microphone and explained what Quoted Replies was about and how I built it,” Oladosu said.

In a video from the event, Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter’s Product Lead said the team is willing to implement Quoted Replies on Twitter as a feature and would like Oladosu to join the team to work on it.

“Thank you for building that bot… We need to do it and I will love for you to maybe consider joining the company and help us,” Beykpour said in the video.
For Oladosu, the job offer is a dream come true.

“Twitter is one of my dream places to work because I have a lot of ideas that I’d like to implement,” he said.
“I have checked their career page multiple times in the past looking for opportunities. This is like giving me what I want on a platter of gold,” he added.

Now, he says he wants to work with the Twitter team build a native quoted replies feature. “A native feature means that you won’t need to use the bot anymore. You’d just have options on the app or on the website to view quoted replies,” he said.

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