“Twitter.com has experienced an explosion in global traffic over the past year, establishing itself as one of the most-visited social networking sites across each of the five worldwide regions,” said Graham Mudd, comScore vice president, search & media. “Today nearly 3 out of 4 global Internet users access social networking sites each month, making it one of the most ubiquitous activities across the web. As more users around the world have become acquainted with connecting and expressing themselves through social media, it has created an environment where new media like Twitter can emerge globally in a relatively short period of time.”

Triple-Digit Visitation Growth Witnessed Across Most Global Regions

In June 2010, nearly 93 million unique global users age 15 and older visited Twitter.com from a home or work location, an increase of 109 percent from the previous year. This excludes usage of Twitter-based applications such as TweetDeck. An analysis of the five major global regions revealed that Latin America experienced the strongest audience growth, surging 305 percent to 15.4 million users. Asia Pacific ranked as the second-fastest growing region, climbing 243 percent to 25.1 million visitors. The Middle-East Africa jumped 142 percent to 5 million visitors, while Europe soared 106 percent to 22.5 million visitors. North America, where Twitter has reached a higher maturity level than other regions, saw a growth of 22 percent to nearly 25 million visitors in June.

*Excludes visitation from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

Indonesia, Brazil and Venezuela Boast Highest Twitter Penetration in the World

Across the 41 individual countries currently reported by comScore, Indonesia at 20.8 percent had the highest proportion of its home and work Internet audience visiting Twitter.com. Brazil ranked second with 20.5 percent penetration, followed by Venezuela at 19.0 percent. With Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez joining Twitter in late April, Twitter.com penetration in the country spiked 4.8 percentage points in a few short months. The Netherlands (17.7 percent) and Japan (16.8 percent) rounded out the top five, while countries in Latin America and Asia Pacific represented many of the remaining top markets, including the Philippines (14.8 percent), Mexico (13.4 percent) and Singapore (13.3 percent).

*Excludes visitation from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

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Venezuela has the largest know oil deposit or petroleum reserve in the world

The Venezuela’s government and the state oil company PDVSA has estimated this oil deposit on 235 billion barrels of crude, but The USGS – an American agency, said that the petroleum reserve in the Orinoco’s Belt were low-estimated by Venezuela and are even larger than 500 billion barrels.

The USGS study is great news for Venezuela, because this information represents an independent study about reserves of crude on the Orinoco’s Belt and is even better becausei it doubled initial estimation made by PDVSA.

However there is a big problem with the Orinoco’s Belt, petroleum is of the extra-heavy-weight type, wich means, that the crude’s extraction is very hard because petroleum doesn’t flow easily and the conversion process is expensive. For that reason it is possible to extract and only recover 20% of petroleum with the current technology that we have today. But even with this limitation, the Venezuela Orinoco’s Belt is great business for multinational oil companies.

These huge reserves of petroleum in Venezuela are attracting international and also local investors to develop and put up the new infrastructure to exploiting the crude. This last Wednesday night on February 10, the government of Venezuela announced new international partners to develop the Orinoco’s Belt, that represent an investment of 80 billion of American dollar for the next 6 years at least.

This is a great opportunity to develop the Orinoco’s region and to have a positive impact on the people of Venezuela, especially to the people who live in the south states of the country.

Ivan13P

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