The Dominican Political Observatory (OPD), an initiative of the Global Democracy and Development Foundation (Funglode), the think tank of former President Leonel Fernandez, in collaboration with Interlat and Hootsuite, hosted a panel on findings from an analysis of what Dominicans are talking about on social media. The meeting took place on 17 October 2018 at the Funglode auditorium in Santo Domingo. The findings were part of the conference, “Stack Technology to Manage Citizen Interaction in Social Networks.”
Findings revealed on social media in the Dominican Republic included:
On Twitter, 49.9% of the posts are about sociopolitical issues. Sports follows with 21.9%. Facebook has 5.6 million users in the Dominican Republic, with 91% of these accessing via a smart phone. Of users, 50% are females. 65% of the Dominican population has access to the Internet and has been climbing around 10% annually from 2014 to 2018.
The most visited sites by Dominicans are YouTube and Facebook. The specialists said that there is more public following Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube in the Dominican Republic than the traditional media.
Héctor Nicolás Suero, coordinador de la Cyberpolitical Unit of the OPD-FUNGLODE and coordinator of the teams of Training In-Company at Interlat, said during the conference that 3,364 trending Twitter topics have generated from the Dominican Republic.
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El Caribe
22 October 2018
