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The media in the Gold Coast first emerged in the 19th century with the publication of The Gold Coast Gazette and Commercial Intelligencer in 1822. [1] The paper had several functions: to provide information for civil servants and European merchants, and to help promote literacy rates and rural development among the local population - while encouraging unity with the Gold Coast government. [1]
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The use of new media in Ghana like elsewhere is growing. The Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) sector, which is based on a free market approach, [ 1 ] has promoted new media use. Most popular aspects of new media to Ghanaians is the Internet, [ 2 ] and its associated mobile and desktop applications for education, health ...
Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is a social networking service.It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. [4] [5] Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts commonly known as "tweets" (officially "posts") and like other users' content. [6]
Ghana was one of the first countries in Africa to connect to the Internet. [5] With an average household download speed of 5.8 Mbit/s Ghana had the third fastest speed on the African continent and the 110th fastest out of 188 countries worldwide in February 2014. [10] In 2009 the number of Internet users stood at 1.3 million, 93rd in the world. [1]
Twitter is increasingly being used as a business promotional tool. Twitter encourages this through "Twitter 101", a web-based tutorial aimed at business users. [125] For example, one of the notable business Twitter users is Dell, which reported $9m of its 2009 sales coming directly through Twitter and Facebook combined. [126]
By 2012, more than 100 million users tweeted 340 million tweets a day. [8] [9] The company went public in November 2013. By 2019, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. [10] On April 25, 2022, Twitter agreed to a $44 billion buyout by Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, one of the biggest deals to turn a company private.
For more information please refer to the article's Talk Pages and/or my User Talk Page. I sincerely appreciate your time and consideration. Thank you. Brookeethleen 01:35, 28 February 2014 (UTC) Update Ghana-related pages about living people. This is crucial because of Wikipedia's strict biographies of living people policy. — Mr.