Ben Israel on all things conversational
The most glaring result from the recent Edelman Asia Pacific Digital Brand Index (DBI) is how fast Twitter has grown in Asia. In most of the markets surveyed, Twitter was the buzziest channel, including Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. In China, where Twitter is not available, Sina Weibo (the local microblogging platform) topped the charts. This is consistent with many of the other studies on twitter's growth. One by Semiocast, done in July 2010, found that "Asia is now the first and...