Northern Africa had the largest number of Twitter users in the African continent. Almost eight million people had accounts on the platform. Furthermore, Western, Eastern, and Southern Africa followed with 6.3 million, four million, and 3.4 million, respectively. On the other hand, Central (Middle) Africa only had around 550,000 accounts on the social media platform.
Number of Twitter users in Africa in 2022, by region
(in millions)
The source adds that the values are connected to twitter's potential advertising reach and therefore may differ from the number of daily or monthly active users.
The source adds that twitter publishes a range of data for each data point, which the source uses the mid-point. Furthermore, the advertising tools are affected by significant fluctuations even over short periods.
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