JAKARTA : Indonesian is the top Asian language used on Facebook and fifth most popular in the world, according to a new study of languages used on the social networking site.
More than 20 million Bahasa Indonesia speakers are now Facebook members, the survey by research company Inside Network found. English is the most common language,with over half of Facebooks 400 million-plus users - followed by Spanish, French and Turkish.
But Indonesians are way ahead of the Asian pack, despite patchy communications infrastructure and little computer access for many of the country's 234 million people.
FAMOUS FACE
Meanwhile,Facebook has a new member-former US President George W. Bush. Bush joined the social network on Wednesday and his profile page, facebook.com/georgewbush, attracted more than 28,000 fans within its first few hours.
A Twitter account,@George-WBush, also appeared on wednesday
purporting to be that of the fomer President but David Sherzer,
a spokesman for Bush, said Bush has no plans to "tweet" and that
the feed was not created by the former President's office. - AFP
NEWS Intech
Tuesday 8 June 2010
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