[AfrICANN-discuss] How Africa tweets: visualised

[Anne-Rachel Inné]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/graphic/2012/jan/26/how-africa-tweets-portland
How Africa tweets: visualised

Twitter is often thought of as a European and American phenomenon. But how
does Africa use the social networking tool? Tweetminster and
Portland<http://notebook.portland-communications.com/2012/01/new-research-reveals-how-africa-tweets/>have
analysed more than 11.5m geo-located Tweets from the last three months
of 2011. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, use of Twitter is dominated by Africa's
richest country: South Africa sent twice as many Tweets (5,030,226) as the
next most active Kenya (2,476,800). Nigeria (1,646,212), Egypt (1,214,062)
and Morocco (745,620) make up the remainder of the top five most active
countries. According to Portland, 68% of those polled said that they use
Twitter to monitor news. They've produced this neat visualisation to show
the distribution of tweets. Click the image to get the large version

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      -  Simon Rogers <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/simonrogers>
      - guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>, Thursday 26 January
      2012 06.37 EST

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