Where do the most number of gamers on Facebook come from in the United States? A study conducted by AdParlor looked into data gathered from hundreds of advertising campaigns to extrapolate the numbers for the entire Facebook audience. Here are the top ten states and the number of gamers that each of these states contribute [...]

It has been quite a while since I wrote about the social networking space in India. Last time I wrote about this was with respect to the December 2008 numbers when Orkut was a clear leader that had been fighting a new kid on the block; Facebook. Back then, Orkut had 12.8 million monthly visits [...]

Like it is elsewhere, Facebook is the most popular social network and the second biggest website in the Blighty. However, the social network is facing a slowdown in growth – not because it is getting less popular, but because there are not enough people on the internet to take the growth forward – Less than [...]

Facebook has reached 500 million users – You learnt about this either on news, or from the newspapers (if you read one) or on one of your favorite blogs or from Facebook.com itself. So where have these million of new users come from? According to an article on the O’Reilly blog, Africa is the fastest [...]

FanPageList is a new site that is dedicated to showcasing the most popular fan pages on Facebook. And surprise, Facebook is the brand with most followers on the website – over 9 million fans. This is interesting because Twitter – for all talk of being a corporate PR platform, does not have even one company [...]

There has been a lot of discussion over Facebook’s controversial privacy policy. This has generated a huge debate and according to some, users have been deleting accounts because Facebook is no longer a private network as it once was. So, if the expansiveness of the Facebook privacy policy is any indicator of how the website [...]

Facebook, with its 400 million users represents a big chunk of internet users worldwide. Inside US, the website is the second most popular website just after Google with over 103 million users. The AdPlanner data on Google provides a very interesting insight into the composition of users on Facebook depending on the average household income. [...]

There are over 400 million users on Facebook now and close to 70% of these users reside outside the United States. Facebook is the largest website in terms of visitors in countries like Indonesia and Philippines. According to Website Monitoring, here are the largest 10 countries on Facebook in terms of the number of users [...]

Facebook recently surpassed Google search (only the search engine) in terms of traffic in USA. Though Google’s cumulative pageviews would be way higher than Facebook’s, it would nevertheless be interesting to see how Facebook as a social network has grown in different countries. Here is the current traffic ranking of Facebook in different countries. Please [...]

How big is Facebook? With nearly 400 million members on board, the company is a pretty big subset of the internet. With such a massive audience, the revenues from behavioral targeting, social gaming, partnerships can bring a lot of revenues. According to a study by Inside Facebook, the social network could have well made over [...]