ABU DHABI, July 4, (KUNA): Forbes Middle East list of top 100 Arabs most active on Twitter included 29 Kuwaitis tweeters, Forbes Middle East editor-in-chief Kholoud Al-Emian announced Monday.
According to Forbes list, Thamer Al-Dakheel (Bu Rashed) was first among Kuwaitis, and second among other Arabs, Nabil Al-Awadhi second among Kuwaitis and seventh among Arab, while Mishari Bu Yabis came in third among Kuwaitis and eighth among Arabs, followed by Kuwaiti Minister of Education Ahmad Al-Mulaifi, who was fourth among Kuwaitis and ninth among Arabs.
Abdullah Buftain; a Kuwaiti political talk show presenter at al-Rai TV, came in fifth place among Kuwaitis and 11th among Arabs.
Twitter, the social network was able to break the governmental blackout-media, and has become a free area away from censorship, especially with the latest political issues that happened in the Arab World, Al-Emian added. Therefore, the magazine was sighted to prepare a list of more than 100 Arab with the most presence in Twitter.
Al-Emian said that Twitter opened a whole new world for people to exchange information and promote business and in some cases, as in Egypt and Tunisia (as it is currently taking place in Syria, Libya and Yemen), it organizes revolutions.
She explained that the Forbes list was full of surprises with the emergence of new “stars” laying a new generation of influential intellectuals in the political and economic.
“Twitter revealed personalities that have been under the cover of artificial speech which emerged in traditional media, yet with this network, people were able to understand the reality behind the public figures,” she said.
“The stars in our list of Twitter are journalists, media figures, bloggers, writers, artists and experts in their fields,” she noted.