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64M monthly Facebook users in Indonesia In the past year, Indonesia has seen some of the strongest levels of growth on social media across the globe. To this end, TechInAsia reports that Facebook has reached a new milestone of 64 million monthly users in the market. This announcement came from Charlene Chian, the Facebook’s head […]

As the saying goes, “rumours spread like wildfire”–and this has never felt more true than it has in Singapore this week. In line with the agricultural slash-and-burn tactics employed by farmers in Sumatra, Indonesia,  deforestation has lit a blaze of buzz upon social media platforms here in Singapore. Over 290,000 individuals have mentioned the haze […]

Facebook now has searchable hashtags to follow public conversation Following the report in March, Facebook just recently launched the functionality to follow conversations through hashtags.  As reported by Techcrunch, Facebook announced that its capabilities include clicking on hashtags from other services, searching for hashtags and writing posts directly from the hashtag feed. Here’s a look […]

 64.3% of Sina Weibo users watch online videos through Weibo interface As reported by Tech in Asia, an agreement has just been made by two of China’s biggest players in social media – Youku Tudou videos will now be promoted on Sina Weibo. Whilst 76% of Sina Weibo’s 500 million registered users are actively accessing […]

Chat app Nimbuzz has 150M users worldwide We’ve reported heavily on Asian chat apps like WeChat, KakaoTalk and Line. In the past year or so, they’ve exploded in popularity across the globe. TechInAsia recently reported that Nimbuzz, another chat app, has joined the other apps in this category and done the same. The originally-Dutch chat […]

If you’ve been following us on Twitter, you might have noticed that the We Are Social team was tweeting about Crowdsourcing Week via @wearesocialsg with the official hashtag #CSW13 this past week. Crowdsourcing Week claims to be the first international event bringing industry experts, innovators, and participants to discuss crowdsourcing, open innovation and crowdfunding heading. The […]

KakaoTalk to launch PC version in June Korean’s leading chat app, KakaoTalk, will soon unveil a PC version of its popular mobile messenger application. It is expected to launch later this month upon completion of its beta test to access user reception. This desktop version is equivalent to its mobile version, with features such as […]

Line now has 160 million users worldwide Line hit 150 million users earlier this month, and it has continued to grow at an incredible rate. TechInAsia recently reported that Line has now reached 160 million users worldwide. The biggest contributors to this growth are Asian markets, with Indonesia at the forefront of the Japan-based chat […]