Tech Crunchies » Facebook http://gorumors.com/crunchies Internet Statistics and Numbers Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:12:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 American States With Highest Number Of Facebook Gamers http://gorumors.com/crunchies/american-states-with-highest-number-of-facebook-gamers/ http://gorumors.com/crunchies/american-states-with-highest-number-of-facebook-gamers/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:45:10 +0000 Anand Srinivasan http://gorumors.com/crunchies/?p=3597 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

1. California : 159,841 (17.00%)
2. Texas : 119,906 (12.75%)
3. Florida : 108,963 (11.59%)
4. New York : 101,642 (10.81%)
5. Ohio : 75,768 (8.05%)
6. Pennsylvania : 73,420 (7.81%)
7. Illinois : 72,306 (7.69%)
8. Michigan : 68,683 (7.30%)
9. Georgia : 57,398 (6.20%)
10. North Carolina : 56,895 (6.05%)

Here are some more highlights from the study:

  • The states of California, Texas, Florida, and New York together account for roughly 30% of all US game players.
  • The highest ratio of game players to state population comes from the State of Wyoming
  • The highest ratio of game players to city population comes from St. Louis, Orlando, Salt Lake City, Dayton, and Pompano Beach
  • Despite a population of almost 650,000 – the city of Boston only brought in 1,792 gamers
]]> http://gorumors.com/crunchies/american-states-with-highest-number-of-facebook-gamers/feed/ 0 Most Visited Social Networks In India http://gorumors.com/crunchies/india-social-network-ranking/ http://gorumors.com/crunchies/india-social-network-ranking/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:03:52 +0000 Anand Srinivasan http://gorumors.com/crunchies/?p=3548 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 compared to Facebook’s 4 million. Now a year and a half later, the tide has finally shifted in favor of Facebook. The world’s largest social network has not spared India and has taken over Orkut as the most popular network. According to the Comscore metrics, Facebook now has over 20.8 million monthly visits from India – marginally above Orkut’s 19.8 million.

Here are the top ten social networks in India in terms of uniques in July 2010 according to the Comscore metrics.

1. Facebook : 20.87 million
2. Orkut : 19.87 million
3. BharatStudent : 4.32 million
4. Yahoo Pulse : 3.5 million
5. Twitter : 3.34 million
6. LinkedIn : 3.26 million
7. Zedge : 3.2 million
8. Ibibo : 2.96 million
9. Yahoo Buzz : 1.8 million
10. Shtyle : 1.55 million

An article I wrote back in October 2007 – Will Facebook overtake Orkut in India makes for a good read about a time when Facebook was the 16th most popular site in India.

]]> http://gorumors.com/crunchies/india-social-network-ranking/feed/ 0 Facebook In UK – Growth And Usage Statistics http://gorumors.com/crunchies/facebook-in-uk-growth-and-usage-statistics/ http://gorumors.com/crunchies/facebook-in-uk-growth-and-usage-statistics/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:15:33 +0000 Anand Srinivasan http://gorumors.com/crunchies/?p=3532 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 10 million of the total 37.6 million online adults in the UK today do not have a Facebook account! To put it more appropriately, Facebook in UK is inching towards a point of saturation.

Thanks to the popularity, Facebook is already the largest website by a mile in terms of pageviews – the website receives close to double the number of page-views that Google receives in UK. So here are some interesting facts about Facebook in UK

  • Second largest website in the UK
  • Facebook traffic made up
    • 7.14% of all internet visits
    • 16.73% of all internet pageviews
    • 54% of all social network visits
  • 26 million Facebook accounts in UK
]]> http://gorumors.com/crunchies/facebook-in-uk-growth-and-usage-statistics/feed/ 0 Geographic Distribution Of Facebook Users http://gorumors.com/crunchies/facebook-users-by-country-2/ http://gorumors.com/crunchies/facebook-users-by-country-2/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:29:35 +0000 Anand Srinivasan http://gorumors.com/crunchies/?p=3503 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 growing region – with a 21% growth rate. Meanwhile, Asia presents the most growth potential moving forward with just a 2.3% penetration at present.

Here is the market share of active Facebook users from the different geographies

North America : 32.5%
Europe : 27.5%
Asia : 17.1%
South America : 9.2%
Middle East/North Africa : 8.5%
Oceania : 2.3%
Africa : 1.6%
Central America/Caribbean : 1.3%

Also Read
Top Ten Countries on Facebook
Facebook Traffic Ranking By Country

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Here are the top brands on Facebook as of now

1. Facebook : 9,115,170 fans
2. Starbucks : 7,259,795
3. Coca Cola : 5,561,571
4. YouTube : 5,110,953
5. Red Bull : 3,709,616
6. Disney : 3,482,728
7. Victoria’s Secret : 3,466,330
8. Converse : 2,748,435
9. McDonald’s : 2,268,750
10. H&M : 2,059,715

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So, if the expansiveness of the Facebook privacy policy is any indicator of how the website has been moving on this front, here is some food for thought – The number of words in Facebook’s privacy policy over the years

2005 : 1,004 words
2006 : 2,313 words
2007 : 3,067 words
Nov. 2009 : 5,314 words
Dec. 2009 : 5.443 words
2010 : 5,830 words

[via Data Viz]

]]> http://gorumors.com/crunchies/facebook-privacy-policy-expansion-over-the-years/feed/ 0 Average Household Income Of Facebook Users : USA http://gorumors.com/crunchies/average-household-income-facebook-users-usa/ http://gorumors.com/crunchies/average-household-income-facebook-users-usa/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:38:48 +0000 Anand Srinivasan http://techcrunchies.com/?p=2672 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. With close to two-thirds of Facebook’s American users earning more than $50,000 per year, it makes for a great destination for advertisers to reach their users.

Here is the household income distribution among Facebook users in USA

$0 – $24,999 : 7%
$25,000 – $49,999 : 26%
$50,000 – $74,999 : 34%
$75,000 – $99,999 : 18%
$100,000 – $149,999 : 11%
> $150,000 : 4%

]]> http://gorumors.com/crunchies/average-household-income-facebook-users-usa/feed/ 4 Top Ten Countries On Facebook http://gorumors.com/crunchies/facebook-users-by-country/ http://gorumors.com/crunchies/facebook-users-by-country/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:09:02 +0000 Anand Srinivasan http://techcrunchies.com/?p=2565 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

1. USA : 111,212,840
2. UK : 23,449100
3. Indonesia : 19,528,560
4. Turkey : 18,679,460
5. France : 15,928,000
6. Italy : 14,931,580
7. Canada : 13,424,180
8. Philippines : 10,647,100
9. Spain : 8,861,140
10. Mexico : 8,236,020

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Please note that Google leads the way in most countries and those where it doesn’t, the number one player is noted in brackets

Brazil : 16
Canada : 2
China : Not in top 500 (Baidu.com)
France : 2
Germany : 3
India : 4
Indonesia : 1
Iran : 58
Italy : 2
Japan : 30 (Yahoo.co.jp)
Mexico : 4
Philippines : 1
Poland : 8
Russia : 20 (Yandex.ru)
South Korea : 5 (Naver.com)
Spain : 2
Turkey : 2
UK : 2
USA : 2
Vietnam : 8

Worldwide : 2

]]> http://gorumors.com/crunchies/facebook-traffic-ranking-by-country/feed/ 0 Facebook Revenues For 2009 http://gorumors.com/crunchies/facebook-revenues-for-2009/ http://gorumors.com/crunchies/facebook-revenues-for-2009/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:02:34 +0000 Anand http://techcrunchies.com/?p=2177 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 $600 million in 2009 and can make close to $1.1 billion in 2010.

Estimates for 2009
Brand advertising : $225 million
Microsoft ads : $50 million
Virtual goods (Credits) : $10 million
Performance advertising : $350 million

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