Facebook Arabic Rising. The Arabisation of Facebook is fascinating to watch. Facebook’s Arabic platform is growing at 175% per annum, about double the rate of overall growth, with growth in Arabic speaking users in Egypt and the Levant being over 200%. Facebook English users in the Arab world grew ‘just’ 45% during the same period. Until recently many marketers pretty much took for granted that the region’s Facebook users were English speaking Arabs or expatriates, using Facebook in English and representing a fairly elite group of online consumers. It has become apparent that this is now far from being true. This time last year we pointed out that the number of Facebook subscribers had reached a point where they outnumbered the newspapers being bought across the region: no longer a minority interest.
The Arab Spring put paid to the idea that Facebook appeals to a narrow demographic in MENA. Language bias in the Arab World's top three Facebook communities So, what does this all mean for the region’s marketers? Voices of the Young Arabs- #Jordan-SilaTech Index #JO. Amman is unlikely hotspot for Tech. startups. Once a technology wasteland, Amman is now home to a growing number of internet startups. Their young founders credit a more liberal government and lower seed costs. “Amman’s different than other places because we’ve got good leadership and better education – we produce engineers who’ve been producing tech work before they even leave school,” Fouad Jeryes, chief of social networking platform d1g.com, told Arabian Business. King Abdullah – younger than other kings in the region, British-educated, with a wife who Tweets regularly under the handle @QueenRania – told the BBC in 2004 that he hoped to make his country the tech hub of the Middle East.
That year, he instituted an education programme he called “big ideas for a little country,” which saw private companies donate computers to local schools and a software curriculum designed to be taught alongside traditional subjects. “The King is a regional leader – very tech savvy, very much caring about how tech can move forward,” Jeryes said. ArabTweeple: A Directory for Arab Twitter Users. Update: Zakaria Kaddari from innowave. the company behind ArabTweeple said that he “used a Twitter search engine that offer twitter search for people by location, and got the list by API calls, but right now, most of the informations is a bit outdated ( especially Followers count ) , from now on I will update those information directly from Twitter, and maybe create my own Twitter crawler to index all the 40K arabs on Twitter. ” 35,000 t0 40,000 Arabs that SpotONPR counted on a report, but there is no final answer into the actual Arab users on Twitter.
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Easily generate the data, compare them with your competitors or with the top brands in your field. Are you active in multiple markets? Our social networking statistics show that Facebook penetration in Jordan is 41.41% compared to the country's population and 112.85% in relation to number of Internet users. Twitterers in Amman~Twitaholic. Jordan Twitterers. Twitter user list- Jordan & Mena... Lack of Internet access in Jordan. By Mohammad Ghazal AMMAN - Low Internet penetration in the Kingdom is preventing local communities from utilising social networking as a tool for positive change, a senior official said on Saturday. Inaugurating the First Arab Social Media Forum yesterday, Minister of Information and Communications Technology Marwan Juma said that although powerful, social networking tools have yet to be fully applied in the country.
“Social networking tools are very flexible, effective and are very useful tools in campaigning for certain causes and issues. But the number of people using the Internet remains an issue,” Juma told The Jordan Times on the sidelines of the forum yesterday. Internet penetration in the Kingdom ranges from 38-39 per cent, he said, stressing that the government aims to accelerate the establishment of the national broadband network to reach “all corners” of the Kingdom. The forum, was attended by 400 representatives of the business sector, NGOs and online media.
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