Facebook & Twitter Statistics For Thailand [Via AIS]
Recently stumbled upon a number of interesting statistics from Thai operator AIS from a press release announced back in early December (2009).
The reliability of the stats is questionable as there is neither a source nor a reference. Social media user data is notorious difficult to find per country, particularly for smaller markets like Thailand.
However according to AIS
There are about 1.34 million Facebook members in Thailand with over 5 million viewers.
Regarding Twitter, there are 600,000 members with over 1.2 million followers.
There are over 6 million AIS Mobile Internet users at present.
There are about 100,000 users of Facebook on mobile phones.
There are about 30,000 users of Twitter on mobile phones.
The user statistics do not seem too drastic although it is not 100% clear what Facebook's "over 5 million viewers" refers to and the mention of "over 1.2 million followers" for Facebook in Thailand is also unclear.
Using the AIS statistics the following is true:
** 7.5% of Facebook users in Thailand actively update through their mobile phone compared to 5% of Twitter users
** Facebook membership in Thailand grew by 15% September through November [or which ever time AIS statistics date from - stats 1,160,980 in Jan 2009 to 1,340,000 - see here for more)
** More than 5% of Twitter users in Thailand took part in the recent Tweeple Talk Thai-language Twitter event (with an estimated 30,000-40,000 in attendance)
More light on this is definitely required.
