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October 25, 2007
Facebook in Israel: Approaching 100,000 Members
Moshe Maeir was one of the first people to notice that the Israel Network on Facebook was approaching 100,000 members.
Back at the end of June there were about 18,000 people on the Israel Network on Facebook. This number grew to about 74,000 when I spoke at VON Israel on October 14th. Ten days later the network grew by 30% to about 97,000. And in less than another couple of days, there will be over 100,000 people on the Israel Network. Given that Israel has a population of 7 million, more than one percent of the Israeli population is represented on Facebook. Given that Facebook is an English language platform, as Shel Israel wrote, “that is truly amazing.”
At the same time, the numbers of my own friends who are on the Israel network have represented about 1% of the number of people on the Israel network. At the moment, 955 of my friends on Facebook are on the Israel Network. In fact, a little less than a third of all my friends are on the Israel network.
Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Israel, Moshe Maeir, Shel Israel, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on October 25, 2007 12:06 AM | Permalink
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I, for example, live in Israel and haven't registered to the Israel network (or to any network)
Posted by: Denis at October 25, 2007 08:17 AM
Jeff, you probably have a lot to do with it. Since you invited I think something like 1000 people many of them in Israel to join Facebook a few months ago. I was one of them and signed up as a result.
I am trying to capture a screenshot when it hits 100,000 if anyone sees it here http://www.facebook.com/networks/
Please send me the screenshot :-)
Thanks
Posted by: Moshe Maeir at October 25, 2007 03:53 AM