Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Social media shines in a still fairly depressed UAE media scene « ArabianMoney

For those who yawn at the endless repeats on City 7 TV of ‘Korea Sparkling’, Katie Fielder on Lake Como, and the bored looking presenter on a Mediterranean cruise, it’s a relief to learn that at least one sector of the UAE media is growing rapidly, and that is social media.

The GCC Government Social Media Summit that kicked off today at the Ritz-Carlton in the Dubai International Financial Centre underlined its growing importance. Facebook users in the Arab World have tripled in the past two years to 45 million while Twitter handles an amazing six million tweets a day from the region.

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