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Russia: One Million Twitter Accounts in Russian

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Russia, Language, Technology, RuNet Echo

The number of Twitter accounts in Russian crossed the point of one million, according to recent reseach [1] [ru] by Russian Internet company Yandex. Now, Russian speakers publish around 370,000 tweets a day (comparing to 150,00o a year ago).  The percentage of daily active  Twitter users (of the total Russian speakers) is currenlty lower, but those who write on daily basis are more active.