A report released by the World Internet Stats in its global 2011 Facebook usage report has shown that the number of Nigerian Facebook users has increased from 400, 000 in the last four years to 4.3 million at the end of December 2011.
According to the report, Nigeria maintains third position in terms of the number of Facebook users in the African continent, coming behind Egypt and South Africa with 9.4 million and 4.8 million users respectively.
Morocco comes fourth with 4.1 million Facebook users; Algeria with 2.8 million users maintaining fifth position while Tunisia recorded 2.7 million Facebook users at the end of December, 2011 making it the sixth in the continent.
Ghana also beat other African countries with a 1.1 million Facebook subscriber mark recorded in the country as at end of 2011.
The latest report says social media continue to grow and in the leading position is Facebook with 799 million subscribers at end of 2011 contending that the networking sites allow people across the world to share photographs and videos and post regular updates of their hmovements and thoughts.
With this stats of Nigeria Facebook users, I’m led to ask you how your business is making great use of Facebook locally? I’ll be glad to know how you do this. And if you have not been leveraging Facebook for your business success, I believe it’s time you get it started. Say something about this post/stats.
To your Facebook Success
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