Africa: How Africa Tweets

Posted 28 January 2012 11:24 GMT

Countries	Kenya
Topics	Technology & Internet, Citizen Media
Languages	English

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Young people Tweeting from mobile devices are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa, according to How Africa Tweets, new research launched by Portland: “In the first ever attempt to comprehensively map the use of Twitter in Africa, Portland and Tweetminster analysed over 11.5 million geo-located Tweets originating on the continent during the last three months of 2011.”

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