Are Arabic social media platforms genuine competitors to the likes of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube or are they struggling to gain traction?
The fast-changing world of social media might be crowded but it hasn’t stopped new players from tapping into niche markets in the region.
Arabic social media sites are attempting to make an impact but only a handful have overcome the uphill struggle to gain momentum on a large scale. Can they raise the stakes and compete in a world being gobbled up by social media giants or will it be a push too far?
Take Watwet, a microblogging site set up in 2008 that once had double the users of Twitter and was one of the first social media platforms launch
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