Young people tweeting from BlackBerries and iPhones are driving the growth of Twitter in  Africa with South Africans by far the most vociferous, according to new research published Thursday. Kenya-based Portland Communications and Tweet minster published findings indicating Twitter in Africa is widely used for social conversation and is fast becoming an important source of information. More than 80 percent of those polled said they mainly used it for communicating with friends, 68 percent said they use it to monitor news and 22 percent to search for jobs, the companies said.

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