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Blown away! Any idea why Brazil is the 2nd largest user of Twitter and has such a huge geo footprint? Was not expecting that, also Indonesia being 3rd is crazy as well.

http://i.imgur.com/ZlPSuAB.png



Brazil is huge. It is the fifth largest country by population in the world.

US has roughly 320m people; Brazil has roughly 201m. Plus Brazil has high Internet penetration. US has roughly 250m with Internet access; Brazil has roughly 100m.

Brazil has one of the largest populations and the largest number of people with Internet access. Also Brazil is a major world economy.


Brazil and Indonesia both have very large populations.

List of World Countries by Population

1. China 2. India 3. US 4. Indonesia 5. Brazil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...

So the real question is why China and India don't have more Twitter users. China I understand because Sina Weibo is more popular there. I don't know about India. Is there an Indian social network that is more popular? I suppose part of it might be that Portuguese and Indonesian use the Latin alphabet whereas Chinese and Hindi do not.


Indonesia currently have a very big "relationship" with twitter as more people are getting smartphones everyday.

And getting stuck in traffic would contribute to a lot of tweeting. FYI, Indonesian more people access YouTube from phones than other countries compared to the pc web version, at least in South East Asia.


wait too much word. I mean compared to other countries, a bigger portion of Indonesian people access YouTube through their phones than "traditional" computers




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