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SocialBakers has published its latest set of infographics on the Top Facebook Pages around the world. Here are a selection of reports from the Asean countries. Indonesia’s Facebook numbers continued to drop a hefty 2 million following the clearing up of fake profiles. It is noteworthy that Indonesia has a Facebook penetration of 198% of Indonesia’s online […]

WeChat downloads up by 3000% in Indonesia According to a recent report by Daily Social, WeChat has met an unprecedented level of growth in Indonesia. The increase is attributed to a TV advertisement that introduced the Chinese chat app’s launch in the market. Japan’s chat app Line had recently claimed the top spot on Google Play’s […]

WeChat & Taobao testing in-app e-commerce search feature Tencent’s WeChat is working with China’s largest e-commerce site, Taobao, to test an in-app e-commerce search engine. WeChat users will be able to message Taobao from within the chat app by typing the keywords for the products that they are seeking, and the app will respond with […]

Daily active users on Sina Weibo up by 82%, add 46 million in 2012 Sina Weibo’s growth over the past year has been an incredible spectacle. The Chinese microblogging service flew past 300 million in February last year, and the milestones kept coming in increments of 100 million: 400 million through July and 500 million […]

420 million Chinese netizens access web via mobile phone The number of internet users in China has soared in the past year. As Resonance China reports, the number of netizens reached 564 million in 2012, and promises to hit the 600 million mark soon. What’s particularly striking, though, is the fact that many of these internet […]

Tencent’s WeChat shakes Sina Weibo’s tree  WeChat’s growth has rattled Sina Weibo’s dominance within China and beyond. Tencent’s hybrid social networking and chat app has amassed 300 million users in 2 years and rolled out new features designed to garner more. Not just your plain vanilla chat app like WhatsApp, WeChat’s features include audio, video […]

Last week was filled with fantastic events and invaluable experiences for all of us here at We Are Social Singapore. Social Media Week returned for a second year, and this time around it was even bigger and better, largely thanks to the efforts of the lovely folks over at AKA Asia. The conference packed a […]

Back for a second year in Singapore, Social Media Week is a multi-city global conference. Connecting social media enthusiasts, practitioners and C-level executives seeking to collaborate and share ideas in a swiftly evolving social media world, the conference will be wrapping up this evening after an activity-filled week. We Are Social Singapore hosted 3 events yesterday, Social […]