Bit.ly, a link-tracking service company, published a comprehensive look at global social media use, which found that Saudi Arabia is rapidly embracing Twitter.
“In this country, most of the social sharing happens on facebook and twitter, but what about in the rest of the world?” bit.ly asks on its company blog. The findings detail the number of clicks that take place in each country for each social network.
The study reveals that Twitter “is quickly becoming a phenomenon in Saudi Arabia. Its apparent popularity backs up recent analysis by the Saudi social media firm Social Clinic, which claimed 12 percent of the tweets in the kingdom. The country’s Twitter base is ballooning by 3,000 percent each year,” as Caitlin Dewey in the Washington Post’s WorldViews blog writes.
Twitter is booming in Saudi Arabia. A new study found Twitter growth at 3,000%.
The study was published two months after another groundbreaking infographic on Social Media in Saudi Arabia. ‘The State of Social Media in Saudi Arabia,’ a joint effort by thesocialclinic.com and The Loft, colorfully explains explain the power and reach of these networks in the Kingdom.
–Facebook has six million active users in Saudi Arabia. Facebook’s use in Saudi Arabia is 90% Arabic, 8% English and 2% the other languages. Facebook is the third most visited website on Saudi soil. One third of Facebook users access the site through their mobile devices.
–Twitter has 3 million active users in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia accounts for 30% of the global tweets tweeted in Arabic. Twitter.com, Twitter’s website is currently the 6th most visited website in Saudi Arabia.
–Youtube has more than 90,000,000 video views on Saudi Arabian soil, that’s more than any daily Youtube video viewership number world wide.
Here’s the full study:
Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding Company owns 3% of Twitter.
