September 2010 - Chapter Six:

Twittering the news in Australia

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Almost two in five of all Twitter users worldwide were from Asia as of August 2010 (37 per cent), well ahead of North America (31 per cent) where Twitter initially flourished. South America was third, with 15 per cent of all users. Of the three countries whose population uses Twitter the most, two are in Asia. It is understand-able that the United States should head the list because Twitter was invented there. The United States registered a quarter of all Twitter traffic in July 2010, followed by Japan with 18 per cent and Indonesia with 12 per cent. Asia is experiencing the fastest grown in Twitter adoption.
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Amanda Williams maintained a humorous commentary, warning her Twitter followers she would be talking of “unmentionables”. By mid morning on April 21 Amanda Williams wrote: “Water broken two hours ago. Disgusting, now having intense contractions. Oh f--- it hurts!” At 11.20am she posted “I’m not sure what getting kicked in the balls feels like but this is gotta be worse right?” Soon after she tweeted: “Time for the epidural’’ and then ‘‘Epidural working a treat. Time for a rest while the drugs do their work.’’ But after her 1.26pm post the tweets stopped. She had been taken to an operating theatre.
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