Facebook opened its first workplace in Thailand on 17 September as the social network company expanded its footprint in Asia, its fastest-developing county.
Thailand Facebook users are some of the most engaged, Sandberg wrote, posting online three times more than the world average. More than 34 million people in Thailand log into Facebook’s 1.5-billion user network every month, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg wrote on her Facebook page. Facebook is blocked out of China, the world’s largest Internet market, but still experiences its fastest growth in Asia at 57 percent.
Earlier this month, Facebook said it has nearly 20 million users in major African markets Nigeria and Kenya, with the bulk using mobile devices to access their profiles Facebook opened its first African workplace in Johannesburg in June as the continent’s growing population and comparatively low levels of internet access present a large untapped market for the social network to earn advertising revenue.
Firstly Facebook has published for African country, Africa is the most populous nation and Kenya, East Africa is the best developed, show the two nations as important entry points on a continent of nearly one billion people.
South Africa has 12 million monthly active Facebook users, the data showed, and Facebook says with its robust advertising partnerships in Africa it would use the new workplace in Johannesburg to expand its business across the continent.
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