Saudi Arabia Twitter Use Boomed in 2010

While Twitter as a whole saw massive growth in 2010, conservative Saudi Arabia’s Twitter use positively skyrocketed: new users from Saudi Arabia grew 240% over the course of the year.

Twitter added more than 100,000,000 new accounts in 2010, and this week we found out where a large chunk of them came from. It might surprise some, but Saudi Arabia has been seeing massive growth in social networking and blogging among its younger generation over the past few years.

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