Ethiopia: Is Ethiopian Blogosphere the Smallest in the World?

Markos wonders whether the Ethiopian blogosphere is the smallest in the world: “A few months ago Joern and I made a little research and we found out that Ethiopia had less than 20 bloggers in the country. This is rather shocking stats compared to 160,000 (July 2008) Bloggers in Egypt. On contrary, Ethiopian love to socialize using social media like Facebook. 90.07% of internet users use Facebook in daily basis.”

2 comments

  • Don Osborn

    Thanks for highlighting this. Any info / breakdown on the languages used?

  • AyeEthiopia

    Probably it’s because even waiting for the google home page to load is very frustrating let alone loading a text editor from websites, the root cause is the ISP itself.

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