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Facebook is most popular site in Africa – Report

The social networking site, Facebook has taken the lead as the most popular website visited in Africa, according to a report by Opera.

According to the report Facebook is the most popular site visited by Opera Mini users in six of the 10 African countries covered in the report published December 22, 2009 and it is second in three of the countries where it is not number one.

The report also indicated that Google is very popular in these countries and ahead of Facebook in a few of the top 10 countries.

The top 10 countries using Opera Mini in Africa are (in order): South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana, Libya, Ivory Coast, Zambia, Tanzania and Namibia.

Nokia and Sony Ericsson handsets are extremely popular in Africa, but Samsung is a significant exception, boasting the most popular phone used by Opera Mini users in South Africa, Zambia and Namibia, the report said.

According to available statistics there are over 10 million Africans on Facebook as at November 3, 2009. Facebook currently has over 300 million users worldwide.

By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi

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