Speaking with Arab News in August 2020, Hussein Freijeh, general manager of Snap in the Middle East and North Africa, explained that the platform reached large proportions of 13- to 24-year-olds in countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, and that the pandemic meant that “the need for people to communicate increased massively.

Half of the world’s top 10 fastest-growing countries for Facebook are in this region: Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. The Middle East and Africa Pushes Ahead of North America in an Important Metric. As in other regions, we have upgraded our forecast for Facebook users in the Middle East and Africa.

In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), it was sixth in the Apple store and third in the Google store. In Oman, it was fourth in the Apple store and third again in the Google store.

According to data from Northwestern University in Qatar, Twitter usage dropped by half between 2013 and 2019 among Arab nationals in key countries surveyed (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates). Key Takeaways. Twitter’s worldwide audience increased in 2020 as a result of greater social network usage during the pandemic.

Other countries demonstrating rapid growth in 2020 include Spain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, India, and Finland. Notably, the top 10 rates of increase in 2020 are almost all a good deal higher than the top 10 rates in 2019—another sign of just how much the pandemic has propelled social networking in recent months. The Mobile Shift in Social Networking Will Continue.

As shown in the chart in the Worldwide section, South Africa ranks No. 3, Nigeria No. 4, Egypt No. 7, the UAE No. 9 and Saudi Arabia No. 10. Facebook Is Widely Used by Social Network Users in the Middle East and Africa. Facebook has extraordinarily high penetration among social network users in the Middle East and Africa, at 96.2% in 2019.