Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina among top users of social network Twitter

Friday, April 29th 2011 - 22:07 UTC

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The social network market continues to grow worldwide

Three Latin American countries figure among the ten top users of social network Tiwtter according to a release from comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, based on the comScore Media Metris service.

The study reveals that the Dutch social networking market continues to grow strongly as sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin extend their respective footprints in the market. The Netherlands has the highest Internet penetration worldwide for two of the other key global social networking sites, Twitter and Linkedin.

However what is interesting is that Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina figure among the world’s top ten in social network usage of Twitter while the US is not in the list and Singapore ranks tenth.

In Netherlands with a network usage of 26.8%, means one out of four inhabitants uses Twitter regularly.

Brazil ranks third in the list with 23.7% usage, Venezuela, fifth with 21% and Argentina, seventh with 18%, almost one out of five in the population use Twitter.

The ten countries in Internet penetration for Twitter.com by reach is as follows: Netherlands, 26%; Japan, 26.6%; Brazil, 23.7%; Indonesia, 22%; Venezuela, 21%; Canada, 18%; Argentina, 18%; Turkey, 16.6%; Philippines, 16.1% and Singapore, 16%.

Categories: Economy, Latin America.

Tags: Latam, Twitter.

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briton
Well we cant all twit about all day,
some of us have work to do.
Apr 29th, 2011 - 10:27 pm 0
Fido Dido
“some of us have work to do”
Yes, some in the UK work. Of those who work, majority are government loudmouth and the rest are unemployed and live on welfare....ah yes, subsidy for the peasants. UK is “paradise”.
Apr 30th, 2011 - 03:28 am 0
stick up your junta
UK is “paradise

Sure is, we dont have to walk in dog shit,still if you live in shit you dont smell it, a Dutchy

dogshit shuffle in turd alley Amsterdam

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dekei/ahondenpoepe.html
Apr 30th, 2011 - 07:39 am 0

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