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Johannesburg Leads Africa in Tweets

South Africa's Johannesburg is chatty and concise. According to a new study, the city's metro area averages one geo-tagged tweet every 13 seconds, leading the African continent in Twitter usage. Using 140 characters or less, users in the metro area posted 608,387 geo-tagged tweets over a three-month span, the study found. It's not a huge surprise that Johannesburg sends out tweets more frequently than any other city in Africa. That's what the "How Africa...

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