The most popular social media platforms in South Africa

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South Africans love social media – these are the most popular platforms.

%) and Pinterest all follow, while Youtube , Reddit and LinkedIn again failed to get a 5% market share.

Despite Facebook having the largest market share for social media platforms on mobile and tablet devices in South Africa, it does not have the largest market share on desktop.However, globally, Pinterest is not the dominant social media platform on desktop, with Facebook having a market share of nearly 50%.

The reductions totalled roughly 13% of the group’s workforce at the time, and the company also said it would extend its hiring freeze in the first quarter.Meta fired its staff to reduce costs following several quarters of disappointing revenues. The retrenchments reflect a major slowdown in the digital advertising market, a shaky economy on the brink of recession, and the company’s multibillion-dollar investment into the VR-centred Metaverse.

However, Meta was not the only major tech company to let go of large amounts of its staff, with Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Twitter also firing thousands of staff members.

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