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Welcome to the kingdom of Facebook

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4 years ago

June 5, 2017

Thailand remains in the top 10 worldwide for social media statistics on network usage and consumer adoption growth in 2017, according to the Bangkok Post.

As of May 1, social media users in Thailand on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter were up an average of 20% year-on-year, rising to 47 million, 11 million and 9 million respectively.

Thailand has moved down slightly in the rankings in terms of Facebook users, to ninth in 2017 from eighth last year.

Bangkok consolidated its position as Facebook’s most active city, with roughly 30 million people in Thailand’s capital using the platform in the past 30 days. However, Thailand still hasn’t reclaimed the title of ‘world’s most social country’, which it recently lost to The Philippines.

Data from GlobalWebIndex shows that the average Filipino still spends more time each day on social media than the average Thai social media user, and the Philippines added three million new Facebook users in the past 3 months, compared to 1 million new users in Thailand in the same period.

Bangkok remains the world’s biggest city for Facebook users in 2017 with 27 million users.

Chon Buri, Chiang Mai and Nakhon Ratchasima also have a strong Facebook contingent.

The times of day that Facebook users are most active on the site is during workdays and on Saturday from 6pm to 11pm.

Pnern Asavavipas, managing director of OBVOC Co, a Thai social media research firm, said Thailand ranked fifth in terms of Facebook Messenger users with 26 million as of May 1, out of 724 million globally.

Ecommerce

Retail in the age of social media

E-commerce is becoming easier and faster, making it increasingly popular. Recently, Instagram introduced a shopping feature that allows users to purchase products within the app.

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1 year ago

September 27, 2019

Headline Editor

Social media is transforming retail and expanding the e-commerce world. It goes without saying that the presence of social media in any retail store is critical to its marketing and sales reach.

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Burma: Facebook blamed for its role in the Rohingya genocide

It took Facebook a year to take concrete measures to rein in the appalling online hate machine that contributed to the systematic of massacre of Rohingyas initiated by Myanmar’s armed forces on 25 August 2017.

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2 years ago

August 31, 2018

Boris Sullivan

Welcoming Facebook’s announcement that it has finally closed the accounts of senior military officers in Myanmar who had been blamed for the ethnic cleansing of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the social networking giant to act transparently in future. (more…)

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CNN Travel Facebook Poll lists seven Thai dishes among World’s 50 Best Foods

CNN Travel readers list seven Thai dishes among World’s 50 Best Foods on its Facebook poll. The list is a reformatted and republished version of the original article published in 2011.

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2 years ago

August 1, 2018

Daniel Lorenzzo

The latest CNN Travel World’s 50 Best Foods list was compiled based on the votes of 35,000 readers via a Facebook poll. The seven Thai dishes in the list are Tom Yum Kung in fourth place, Phat Thai (fifth), Som Tam Papaya Salad (sixth), Massaman Curry (10^th), Green Curry (19th), Chicken Fried Rice (24^th) and Mu Nam Tok or spicy minced pork salad (36^th). (more…)