We have taken Twitter users from the UAE and visualised their connection between each other. The below graphs show user nodes and connection lines to the accounts they follow. The first graph shows a snapshot of 200 users within the UAE and the second one shows the connections of 1200 users within the UAE.
The below figures show some statistics of the current Twitter user base in the UAE. The data was collected on the 25th of August 2009 and represents a sample snapshot of user activity.
We counted 1260 active users on August 25th 2009. Active means users that actually “tweeted”.
The users evaluated had
From the users evaluated above we had a look at when they joined the service:
Twitter user growth UAE
Interesting that over 80% joined Twitter in 2009.
We will continue taking data samples and post them here in the future.
