Research projects that Twitter will hit nearly 400m users by 2018, with over 40% in Asia-Pacific

Marketing research firm eMarketer has released its first-ever forecast of Twitter users worldwide, and projects that the social network will have nearly 400 million users by 2018, with over 40 percent of them in the Asia-Pacific region. By the end of this year alone, the Asia-Pacific region will account for 32.8 percent of all Twitter users, exceeding its 23.7 percent share in North America, according to eMarketer’s estimates. This is despite a ban on the social networking site in China, which has one of the region’s largest portion of internet users. eMarketer notes that if China opens up to Twitter...



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