Half of the kingdom’s active users log in daily while more than 50 percent access the micro blogging site via their smartphone, Dick Costolo said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
The number of people using social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter has soared in the wake of last year’s Arab Spring protests, becoming popular platforms for coordinating rallies and disseminating news and information quickly.
Arabic accounts for 1.2 percent of all public tweets, while the number of tweets in the language over the last year has increased 2,146 percent, according to Paris-based firm Semiocast.
