Re: Somali domination of Cyber Space
Postby Yibir » Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:47 pm
jah youth wrote:you sure somalis dominate cyberspace?
did you check all other african nations and compare traffic?
Bro, that's exactly what I did.
Nairaland forum (Nigeria - our largest nation) - 131,655 total topics
Abesha forum (Ethiopia - our 3rd largest nation) - 20,365 topics

SudanBoard forum - 34,710 topics
OromoIndex forum - 4,046 topics
Those are the biggest non-Somali African ethnic/nationalist sites I could find in 5 years of surfing the net.
Somalinet (gone through 2 major forum shifts) - 112,953 topics on current forum since 2001
Somalilife (gone through recent forum shift) - 22,361 topics since just 2007
SomaliUK forum - 5,548 topics
SomaliaOnline forum - 20,000-40,000 topics *estimated
SimplySomali forum - 5,000-8,000 topics *estimated
AllSomaliForum - 2,033 topics since just last summer
The above are all the Somali forums I've surfed over the years. It literally took me 5 weeks of searching to even FIND a Sudanese forum, lol. And when I searched Ethiopian/Eritrean/Amhara/Oromo/Tigray forums, Abesha and OromoIndex were the only reasonable results I found.
So yes, my research on this topic is ridiculously thorough and the result is that non-Somali Africans have either a disdain for the internet or a lack of use for it. My only point in this research is how this difference came about.