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Comscore a leading digital measuring website and company told us that of the countries: Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Vietnam has seen the fastest penetration on social Media activities with a year on year growth of 35% of which 66% growth was recorded in 2010.
Philippinos are clocking up 95% Malaysia 91% Indonesia 91% penetration of website traffic from those countries engaging in Social Media. Facebook was a prime reason for this growth. The Phillipino’s love Facebook so much they have knocked Google off the No 1 spot. That lovely Philippina you chat online too is so typical of the average that spends 7 hours a month on Facebook alone.
Philippina online
Twitter is reaching Asia too with Indonesians and Singaporeans now seeing what it can do for quick information and these two countries are in the top 15 markets for Twitter. Indonesians clocked up a massive 21% of the countries web traffic visiting the site making it the fourth market worldwide.
Overall growth in 2009-2010 grew from 67.6%to 70.5 % also these people spent more time on Social Media sites in 2010 than they did in 2009 from 11% to 16%
Email and Instant messaging use fell in the same period IM was the most dramatic seeing 5% percent less traffic in the same period!
Email fun
Photo sharing increased 10% adding more of a dimension to the experience Flicker grew considerably. And more and more people upload directly and instantly from mobile phone cameras.
E commerce is rising across all these six countries apart from H.K. and S’pore with no significant rise. Sites like traveling sites offering cheap flights and budget Hotels saw real growth.
