Kenya has 2 million Facebooks!!!?? Synovate, c’mon give me a break

First off, I have been away from here for sometime, well am back! Of to serious business,

I read this report from synovate that gives statistics on number of Kenyan on the web; Kenyans on social networks, their preferences and such like stuff. I was particularly appalled by the point:

“More than 2 million people on Facebook, outweighing email users”

Lets get the facts right, to open a facebook account, you need an email account, It is impossible to have 2 million Kenyans on facebook, as at end of last year, facebook themselves used to publish number of users in each network, Kenya had around 90,000 users, and if we estimate that 50% of Kenyans had not registered on their network, then my estimate is that Kenya had approx 150,000 users as at the start of 2009

Please see this link

From that report, Kenya had 240,000 users as at April 2009.Facebook states that they have 400 million users worldwide, hence, it is easily impossible for Kenya to have 2 million of those seeing that Africa itself has less than 2% of all facebook users worldwide

Please see the following links as well:
inside facebook
oreilly
oreilly