The Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has ordered the lifting of a censors' ban on the famous Facebook website after being banned for several weeks.
Tunisian sources said Wednesday that the Tunisian President ''personally intervened to give instructions to allow access to Facebook website as soon as he became aware that it was blocked for Internet users in Tunisia.''
Internet users in Tunisia were able to access the site on Wednesday.
Muhammad Ali, a student, said he was able to access the site without any trouble.
Muhammad described the Tunisian President's intervention as a positive initiative that would enhance the improvement of Internet services in Tunisia.
He pointed out that he had resorted to illegal special programmes to access the site after it was banned.
Facebook is said to have been blocked in Tunisia since the 18th of August, 2008.
About 28 thousand people, out of Tunisia's over two million Internet users, are registered users of Facebook.
The number of Internet users in Tunisia increased this year by 28%, to reach 2.068 million users by July, 2008 compared to 1.618 million users during the same period last year.
Tunisia this year had doubled the capacity of the Internet to reach 5.1 Gigabit per second, compared to 2.4 Gigabit per second last year.
The number of Tunisians ADSL users increased to 153,000 subscribers by July, 2008 compared to 76,000 users during the same period last year.
Launched on the fourth of February 2004, Facebook is one of the most visited websites in the world with some 60 million registered users.
Despite its wide popularity in the Arab Word, some Arab governments - notably Egypt and Syria - have blocked users from accessing it.
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