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Asia biggest user of Twitter - India 4th in Asia
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010, 19:37 IST
Bangalore: Asia has outshined North America as the biggest user of Twitter. They contribute about 37 percent of the total tweets in the micro-blogging site. Major contributors of this feat are Japan, Indonesia and South Korea. It was also found that USA, though being the first twitter nation, contributed just about 25 percent of the total tweets. This is 5 percent lower than what it was in March 2010, reveals a recent study by Semiocast, a Micro-Messaging Company in France.
Though India contributes less in terms of the quantity of tweets, the social networking site is now immensely popular in India. India ranks 4th among all the Asian countries on twitter. It's easy to use features is one of the main factors for this. Apart from this, many people write bad English that bars them from having a blog. So there only hope is Twitter and it becomes quite natural for it to be picked up by many people in India.
Though the U.S. is going at the right pace, Asian countries are quickly picking up. The continent wise share of tweets now goes this way: Asia- 37 percent, North America- 31 percent, South America- 15 percent, Europe- 14 percent, Africa- 1.5 percent and Oceania- 1.5 percent. If we see the Asian region, Japan leads the trend, followed by Indonesia and South Korea. India is at fourth place with less than 1percent of the total tweets on Twitter.
Even the Bollywood celebrities are on a craze for tweeting their updates. While they can keep in touch with their fans, they also can promote their new releases on it and there is no doubt, Twitter is fast getting as popular as Facebook in India today.
