The popularity of Twitter has soared in the Arab world over the past year, a study published on Thursday revealed, reflecting the key role of the social networking site in the "Arab Spring" revolutions.
Online Twitter messages, or tweets, in Arabic rocketed from 99,000 a day in October 2010 to over two million last month, social media monitor Semiocast showed in its study into the most popular languages used on the popular site.
Arabic is now the eighth most popular language on the microblogging site, where users leave short messages of no more than 140 characters.
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