Usage Of Social Media In The Middle East – An Infographic

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Did you know that approximately 40.2 percent of the total Middle East population has access to the internet and that 3.7 percent of internet users worldwide come from the region; now this is a significant number.

In the Middle East, 88 percent of the population who use the internet use social networking sites every day.

According to this infographic by Go-Gulf, there is an estimated 58 million users of Facebook in the Middle East. This is the biggest number of users of any social network in the region as only 6.5 million and 5.8 million are estimated to be using Twitter and LinkedIn respectively.

48% people communicate in English followed by 45% in Arabic.

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Kapil Bhatia

Kapil is the Founder of TFOUR.ME. He has been in the Financial Services Industry past 13 years. His work ranges across e-Channels, Digital Marketing, Online Acquisition, Payments, and developing Online and Mobile Strategies, with a sound Information Technology base. He has been part of the blogging industry since 2007 and an established columnist writing on online business and technology for various publications in the region. Follow him on Twitter –

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