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November 11, 2007
Facebook: Experiencing Viral, Rapid Growth outside of North America
After noting the viral growth of the Israel Network on Facebook yesterday, I wondered how much has the penetration of Facebook grown during the past sixteen days. When looking at the chart below, Facebook's rapid worldwide growth is especially amazing when considering that in 16 of the top 20 countries experiencing this rapid growth, English is not the primary language.
According to the number of worldwide Facebook Users in 31 countries published by Facebook on October 26, 2007 as compared to the same on November 11th, during these sixteen (16) days, Facebook's user population grew outside of North America at the amazing rates seen below. Growth in North America was “only” 7.24% during the same period.
In Region Growth – from Oct 26th to Nov 11th:
South America: 53.58%
Pacific: 33.48%
Asia: 16.10%
Africa: 14.67%
North America: 7.24%
(Facebook User Stats as of: November 11, 2007)
Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on November 11, 2007 11:58 AM | Permalink
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Dear Jeff,
May I borrow this table and link/credit directly to you by name? Feel free to e-mail a response if it is easier.
Would be most grateful.
Maya Norton
The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy
Posted by: Maya Norton at November 19, 2007 11:42 AM
astonishing stats
Posted by: michelle at November 12, 2007 05:28 PM
France is experiencing a particularly fast growth despite facebook.fr domain is still pointing to the .com ans the existence of local social media !
I would be more than happy if the same happens for Blogdimension.com, the Web 2.0 and blogospheric search engine!
"Chapeau bas !" as we say in France (it means "low hat") ;-)
Posted by: Henrick at November 11, 2007 08:11 PM