Regional

The state of social media in the Middle East

Consumers in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) are among the most active users of social media platforms. The region’s large...

Triska Hamid • 21 April, 2019

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Regional

Twitter’s media plans for MENA [Q&A]

Twitter is targeting Saudi Arabia and Egypt as its regional growth markets as it seeks to make users more ‘sticky’...

Menan Khater • 15 January, 2017

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Global

Startup Watch: Who's reading your emails, the UAE mission to Mars and has power corrupted you yet?

Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading this week on those new Pixel phones that do stuff with the flick of a wrist,...

Lucy Knight • 06 October, 2016

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Regional

GE Geeks Go for Gold Challenge

During this year's Rio 2016 Olympic Games, GE machines are tweeting in their native tongue - binary code – about their...

Wamda • 17 August, 2016

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Regional

YPO & Wamda live Twitter Chat: What’s Trending Now in MENA? #MENABizTrends

What industries are ready for disruption in MENA? What is trending in the business world? Got anything you’d like to learn about...

Wamda • 22 July, 2016

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Regional

Is ecommerce MENA's biggest digital market? [Infographic]

This is an edited crosspost from LinkedIn.  Consumers have become smarter and faster in making buying decisions online,...

Maher Dosoqi • 14 February, 2016

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Regional

MENA's social media strongholds [Infographic]

Social media has a huge influence on business in the Middle East, be it as a marketing tool or a company platform through which...

Rachel Williamson • 27 December, 2015

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Saudi Arabia

What you should know about Saudi’s social media behavior

A screenshot from the video created along with the TOP report Saudi Arabia is still growing into a market that regional and global tech...

Maya Rahal • 09 September, 2015

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Egypt

Egypt's Bey2ollak app adds bomb alert hashtag

Egyptian traffic app Bey2ollak has created a bomb scare hashtag to better inform Egyptians of urban threats after a spate of bombings...

Rachel Williamson • 05 February, 2015

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Saudi Arabia

Saudis love of Twitter, an online marketers dream

This article has been cross-posted from Firnas.org Twitter is one of the most popular social networks in Saudi Arabia. While for some it is...

Ryan Adil • 25 January, 2015

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Saudi Arabia's 20 most popular Twitter users

Previously published on alqiyady.com. 25 Trends, a regional social media analytics company, has put together a list of the top 20 most...

AlQiyadi • 08 October, 2014

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4 ways to engage your Twitter audience this Ramadan

It’s that time of year again: Ramadan. During this period, many online startups look back to their last year’s analytics to try to make the ...

Maya Rahal • 03 July, 2014

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4 ways to use Twitter lists to develop your business

  Regionally, Twitter is the second popular social media site after Facebook with almost 4 million users in the Middle East...

Muhanad Sabha • 10 February, 2014

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YouTube the next frontier for marketers in Bahrain [Infographic]

A recent infographic produced by Tawasul, a Bahrain-based social media consultancy and management firm, rounds up the top-rated brands on...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 23 January, 2014

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What You Look Like to a Social Network [Infographic]

Facebook makes a lot of us feel warm and fuzzy; if commenting on ‘life event’ photos and smugly stalking friends and family halfway around ...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 24 December, 2013

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How do Saudis use social media? [Infographic]

Saudi Arabia is no doubt one of the main markets digital entrepreneurs want to dominate. With more than three million active Twitter users,...

Maya Rahal • 16 December, 2013

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Twitter aims to boost ad sales with retargeted ads

Now that its IPO is over, Twitter’s mission to expand is moving along at a clip. Sometime next week, the social network will officially l...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 08 December, 2013

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Why a post-IPO Twitter needs Saudi Arabia, in 3 graphs

[photo from SUSTG.com]. After selling 70 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange last week, Twitter's future is looking...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 12 November, 2013

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A look at Twitter's IPO: what will change?

Twitter’s IPO, which it announced last week, is one of the most hotly anticipated IPOs since Facebook. After announcing via tweet that t...

Nina Curley • 16 September, 2013

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This is the state of Twitter in 2013, while on the verge of a potential IPO [Infographic]

Seven years after its launch, Twitter is on the verge of an IPO. Even though both CEO Dick Costolo and cofounder Jack Dorsey have denied...

Maya Rahal • 12 September, 2013

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