Indonesia

An 8.7 magnitude earthquake has hit the off the coast of the Indonesian island Sumatera in the Indian Ocean. At first details were scant and there was fear that there may be a repeat of the tsunami which devastated the region in 2004. Those fears have, for now, been allayed ...

Indonesia has the third largest Facebook population of any country on earth, but growth on the social network in the country is being eclipsed by that of LinkedIn.The professional network announced that it has reached the one-million user mark in the South-East Asian country, just a couple of months ...

First Indonesia wanted to crack down people who were "rude" on Twitter, now Brazil is demanding the social network block users who tweet about speed traps and roadblocks.According to the BBC, Brazilian authorities feel that such accounts are undermining their efforts to curb drunk-driving.The South American nation has reportedly ...

Twitter’s decision to censor tweets on a country by country basis caused widespread outcry. For the government of Indonesia, however, such measures may not be enough.Authorities in the South East Asian country claim they are "studying" Twitter with a view to cracking down on users who "behave badly" on ...

Software company Opera, announced yesterday that Nigeria has taken the place of South Africa as the country in Africa with the highest number of users on the Opera Mini mobile browser.Africa's most populous country swept aside China and South Africa to finish March as the number five country globally ...

Facebook has seen phenomenal growth in the last two years. With more than 500-million users the social network has half the population of Africa's just over a billion. The company's growth seems more evident in Asia with new active users emerging everyday. Asia has more than 139-million Facebook users making ...

Indonesia is now the source of 15 percent of the world’s Tweets, coming in third place globally behind the US and Brazil, according to the below recent analysis by Saling Silang.Indonesia’s Tweets peak on Thursdays, but weekends are highly active……On weekends, Indonesians send out more Tweets per person than at ...