The Digital Media Center explained In Iraq, there is a clear increase in the number of active social media users, in the latest statistics for this year and compared to last year.
The center explained that the number of users of communication sites during this year amounted to 28.35 million active users, an increase of 3 million and 350 thousand users over last year, according to the latest statistics of the WeR Social and Kipios institutions specialized in this field..
The center noted that there are 18.85 million users on the “Facebook” platform, 15.45 million active users on “Instagram”, 13.8 million users on “Snapchat”, 1.9 million users of “Twitter”, and 1.4 million users LinkedIn has 16.15 million users on the Facebook Messenger app.
According to the center, there is an increase in the number of users of all social platforms, especially “Snapchat” and “Instagram”, with the exception of “Facebook” and “Facebook Messenger”, where the two platforms lost two million users compared to last year’s figures..
And to talk about the details of these statistics and their implications, the cybersecurity official at the Iraqi Digital Center, Moamel Shukir, says: “These statistics are, of course, derived from websites specialized in surveying the numbers of active users on Iraqi social networking sites, and the center compares them with the statistics of previous years.”
And he explained in an interview with “Sky News Arabia”, that “every year, a statistics is made on the number of effective users of social media platforms in Iraq, according to high technical mechanisms.”“.
And he continued, “Perhaps what differed during the new statistic is that Facebook, affiliated with Meta, lost more than two million users, and the most prominent reasons for this decline for the social media giant in Mesopotamia, is that many users deleted their accounts, for example, due to Facebook’s standards policy, and many have communicated With me about the problem of their losing and disrupting their accounts, and their inability to recover them.”
Shakir explained, “The problem here is that Facebook itself says that it has a shortage of employees, and therefore it is not possible to track all the complaints and issues that are submitted to the site.”“.
Another reason that explains the decline of “Facebook” in Iraq, as Shukir explains, is “the growing security concerns of users due to the leakage of their data and information.”
He continued: “A number of Iraqi Facebook users assured me that their information was leaked, and they listed incidents of violating their privacy by hackers and hackers, so many do not feel safe on the Facebook and Messenger platforms, which explains this significant decline in Iraq. We are talking about two million users, which is a very large and influential number. “.