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The Twitter bird is flying into Latin America

 Latin America has recently become one of the largest growing groups on Twitter. Currently there are 93 million Twitter users worldwide. About 15.4 million of them are now from Latin America. This number has grown 305 percent from June 2009 to June 2010. This growth is the largest surge throughout the world. Venezuela has had a particular spike now that their President Hugo Chavez joined Twitter in April. ComScore reported a 4.8 percent spike in Venezuelan users in the few months after Chavez join the social media website. Chavez has even provided jobs by creating his Twitter account. He has hired 200 assistants to help him handle his account. ComScore has also released a list of the Top 20 Markets by Twitter Penetration. Of the 20 countries, there are six countries from Latin America: Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Colombia. Latin American has about 150 million Internet users to tap into and Twitter is not going to let that market pass by. Twitter has now begun to translate the website into other languages. This option opens the door to more possible users by breaking down a language barrier. Twitter in Latin American has shown that 72 percent of the populations are now connected to the Internet and new technologies. Twitter has also become a professional tool for about half the population. The next frontier for Latin America will be mobile use of the social media.