The Vine app is light on bandwidth, but will Africans use it when it comes to Android?

Arab Social Media Report, produced by the Dubai School of Government’s Governance and Innovation Program, analyzes usage trends of online social networking across the Arab region.

Mali’s Malitel is making a social media push as the telecoms industry grows despite political instability.

Perhaps the best way to monitor social action revolving around Egyptian voting on the 23rd and 24th is via DataSift, a platform that collects, filters, and analyzes large volumes of social data.

Instead of a post on how Malians are using social media to promote the now-delayed April 29th, 2012 presidential elections, we turn to see how social media has been used to spread information of a military coup on March 22, 2012.

This week, Al-Shabaab turned to Twitter to promote its messages.