Video: Jakarta tops Tokyo and London as the most active Twitter city worldwide
Skift Take
As more developing nations turn to Twitter for public discourse, will Twitter allow its users their space -- as it did during the Arab Spring -- or become something of a policing unit for media partners, as seen during this week’s Olympics coverage?
Jakarta has beaten Tokyo, London, Sao Paulo and New York to come first in the world in terms of Twitter activity, according to a new study.
Bandung, Jakarta’s neighbouring city and Indonesia’s second largest metropolitan area, ranked sixth.
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