3arabawy BookMarx 07/19/2012 (a.m.)
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Egypt has quarter of Arab world’s Facebook users: Report – Economy – Business – Ahram Online
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Egypt has a total of 11.3 million Facebook users, with 1.6 million new accounts created between January and June 2012, according to statistics from the Arab Social Media Report (ASMR).
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The Arab world had a total of 45.2 million Facebook users at the end of June 2012, the report says, up from 37.4 million in January. In June 2011, the figure stood at 29.8 million, suggesting an annual rise of 50 per cent.
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Younger Arabs — those aged between 15 and 29 years — make up about 70 per cent of total Facebook users, a proportion that has held relatively steady.
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