Convinced Opera Social Networking Revolution Trigger

Opera Software found social networking sites if the war is real enough to trigger a revolution in a country.

"In our analysis, the role of social networking sites became apparent, when the Egyptian people use their phones as communication tools. Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites experience traffic surges in Egypt before the revolution," said Opera Software's party in his official statement on Saturday (26 / 3 / 2011).

In the report State of the Mobile Web this month, Opera analyze traffic from countries that play an important role in radical changes in February. These data indicate that the opposition of local news sites with low market penetration usually have spikes during a demonstration in Tahrir Square.

"Some maintain the high traffic even after the resignation of Mubarak, while others are flattened," they added.

In the same data, Opera found that if Google, Facebook and YouTube are the top 3 sites are most often accessed in the Middle East countries. Even Yahoo, the BBC and Wikipedia is also a popular site in the region.

Meanwhile, from February 2010 to February 2011, page requests in 10 countries in the Middle East increased by 233 percent and unique users increased 142 percent, and the data transferred increased by 259 percent.

"Our data also shows, 10 countries browser Opera Mini users in the Middle East is Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Syria, Oman and Israel,"said the Opera.

Opera Software is the creator of the mobile browser Opera Mini, has millions of users in the Middle East. All traffic from the browser Opera Mini is compressed beforehand by Opera Software and statistics from the server shows a unique view of the web browsing habits.