40% of Internet users are from Asia

The Asia-Pacific region accounts for 39.8 percent of all Internet users in the world. Europe comes next with 27.6 percent and North America’s share is 15.9 percent in the global internet audience. This is as per August 2010 data from Comscore. We already know that Asia will be a $80 bn market by 2015. 

Coming to the global market for Twitter reach, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines and Singapore are the four Asian countries which figure in the top 10 list for Twitter. Together these four Asian countries has a percent reach of 65 percent reach in the top 10 list.

via asiancorrespondent.com

Just a brief snapshot of an interesting post from fellow Asian Correspondent blogger Sriram Vladlamani. Unfortunately the graphics haven't come out properly so I recommend visiting the link for full data and analysis.

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