Monday, August 25, 2008

Facebook Population: A Global Breakdown

"Facebook Population: A Global Breakdown

A couple of weeks ago Facebook surpassed MySpace as the most-trafficked social media site in the world (comScore). What does it mean to carry a moniker such as this? I decided to crack open the Facebook ads and pages application to look at the numbers on a global level.

,,,Facebook Population By Region: all numbers current to last Friday (Aug 22nd 2008)

Top 8

1 USA 31,679,380 about 1 in 10
2 United Kingdom 12,216,660 about 1 in 5
3 Canada 9,878,540 about 1 in 3
4 Turkey 3,747,000 about 1 in 20
5 Australia 3,615,620 about 1 in 5
6 Chile 3,165,260 about 1 in 5
7 Colombia 2,959,020 about 1 in 14
8 France 2,605,980 about 1 in 19"

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