The biggest social networks in South Africa

[jes]

The biggest social networks in South Africa

A comparison of the latest statistics on the biggest online social networking platforms in South Africa

[ave]

wouldnt whatsapp be considered a social network?

[dabbler]

I thought Whatsapp and BBM and Facebook and Twitter, etc., has replaced Mxit?

[bxm]

Yeah, I wouldn't call MXit a social network. Luckily Jan refers to it as a "social service" in the article.

[zeely]

another mxit article? IS AKC jnr paying for all this advertising?

[Sodan]

Hey mBB, how about an article of the ratio of smart phone to feature phone users, and the rate of conversion from feature phone to smart phone, with, perhaps, a projection as to when (if) feature phones are going to die out.

And that will settle the question as to when MXIT is going to die.

Thanks.

[Niren_M]

How can one compare peer messaging to a social network? Social networking as I understand it, allows all your friends/contacts to view your postings/messages, etc. like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.

[HOLY MAnIAC]

How can one compare peer messaging to a social network? Social networking as I understand it, allows all your friends/contacts to view your postings/messages, etc. like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.

agreed, but still unexpected I thought mixit had died out.

[purpleonlineadmin]

agreed, but still unexpected I thought mixit had died out.

Mxit to smartphone users = dying out. Most South Africans don't use smart phones = a big market share left. This is something ICT developers in SA (especially web and mobile developers) have to understand. We wish everyone can afford a smartphone, the majority don't, SA is 3rd world, and i think we should focus on that too. The feature phone market is still huge, but not as profitable(e.g. postpaid vs prepaid in telecommunications)

[Azgard]

Nice to see that 2go made it into an article on here at last :-)

[Jan]

Just received official stats from Research in Motion who say that 97% of BlackBerry users in South Africa are on BBM as well. Updated the article accordingly.

[Jan]

Hey mBB, how about an article of the ratio of smart phone to feature phone users, and the rate of conversion from feature phone to smart phone, with, perhaps, a projection as to when (if) feature phones are going to die out.

And that will settle the question as to when MXIT is going to die.

Thanks.

I've actually given a talk where I was asked about this, but some of the stats are a year old. I'll find out if there are newer stats on this.

Just to pre-empt any discussion about this when the time comes: What would you like the headline to be? ;-)

[mykel]

I personally think 2go is better than mxit. 2go got 10million users in Africa as a whole.

[Xzib1t]

40000 new registrations everyday, sheesh, there are only so many people with a cellphone.

[Azgard]

I personally think 2go is better than mxit. 2go got 10million users in Africa as a whole.

At the moment 2go actually has over 16 million registered users, most of which are from Africa :-)