Lagos, Ibadan and Kano among most active African cities on Twitter

By Chrysanthus Ikeh

Lagos, Ibadan and Kano have been named among the most active African cities on social networking site, Twitter.

Lagos was ranked 11th, Kano 13th while Ibadan occupied the 14th position on the list compiled in a report titled ‘How Africa Tweets’, conducted by Portland Communication.

The report named Johannesburg in South Africa the most active city in Africa, with 344,215 geo-located tweets during Q4 2013.

Below is the list of the most active African cities on Twitter:

1.Johannesburg – 344,215
2.Ekurhuleni – 264,172
3.Cairo – 227,509
4.Durban – 163,019
5.Alexandria – 159,534
6.Nairobi – 123,078
7.Cape Town – 83,818
8.Accra – 78,575
9.Abidjan – 56,054
10.Douala – 51,441
11.Lagos – 44,392
12.Dar es Salaam – 22,581
13.Kano – 19,023
14.Ibadan – 13,703
15.Algiers – 12,317
16.Kinshasa – 10,201
17.Luanda – 7,312
18.Addis Ababa – 3,307
19.Dakar – 788


http://thenet.ng/2014/03/lagos-ibadan-and-kano-among-most-active-african-cities-on-twitter/

doublewisdom:
High twitter usage? Kano? Ibadan? Why not Ife and Modekeke?