The World Economic Forum’s annual report is a treasure trove of Networked Readiness information for 138 economies.

The social media giant tends to keep such statistics private, but allows potential advertisers the number of accounts tied to a given country in the form of “Estimated Reach”:
In case you are wondering, the global Facebook statistics present over at SocialBakers actually are scraped daily from Facebook’s own database. A …

African download speeds range widely but average 2.1 Mbps, according to data from over 300,000 bandwidth tests on SpeedTest.net. Upload speeds are half as fast.

A timeline of Internet user predictions by South Africa’s World Wide Worx sheds light on the challenges in forecasting Internet growth. In this case, the predictions proved conservative.

This post is an update of December 2010’s list of African leaders with a Facebook presence. Of special interest are pages from Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Zimbabwe.

An article from 1998 mathematically explains the benefits of shared links.