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Social media push in Iraq

Countries that are lagging in the development of social media, need to take notice of developments in an unlikely place – Iraq.

It seems that blogger and US secretarty of State,  Hilliary Clinton, has thrown her weight behind the expansion of social media - including the micro blogger, Twitter – by the Iraqi government.

Meanwhile, Twitter’s booming growth has taken another huge jump.

A US survey revealed that Twitter.com traffic went from 367 million to over 420 million last week alone in terms of pageviews. In the same week, unique views went from just over 8 million, to over 10 million. The pageviews on Twitter’s signup page alone went up over by over a million for the week. 

Ian

April 20, 2009 Posted by ianandsue | Uncategorized | | No Comments Yet