Writing For Facebook? Use Nouns and Verbs. Breakdown of Facebook demographics of top 15 countries. I see Facebook's demographics for the top 15 country markets.
Okay, so that may not rhyme, but at least you know what this post is about, right? As always, the source Inside Facebook has an in-depth look at some Facebook demographics that matter. In this case, a look at some international statistics in the 15 largest countries represented on Facebook. I only have information on four of the markets - you have to be a member of Inside Facebook Gold to get the full report. Let's see what we've got for now. U.S. We know the U.S. members are continuing to grow: 4.4 million were added in April, and another 7.8 million joined in May, bringing the U.S. total past 125 million. And while women 18-25 make up the largest single demographic in the U.S., it's instructive to note that a full 61% of Facebook's American user base is over the age of 25.
So much for long-held assumptions. But overall across age and gender, our two nations are fairly similar in Facebook demographics. Google Names Facebook Most Visited Site. Google has publicly released a list of the top 1000 websites in the world, raking the Facebook social networking site as the leading Web property by unique users. According to Google's AdPlanner stats, Facebook scores more than 540 million unique visitors per month, reaching a sizeable chunk of 35.2 percent of the Internet population. Facebook not only has the most unique visitors in Google's stats, but also the most page views per month, a whopping 570 billion views, ahead of other properties like Craigslist (#49) with 14 billion views. The AdPlanner list does not contain any figures for most of Google's own properties, like YouTube, Gmail, News, or Search, but gives an interesting insight into which top Websites do not serve advertising.
Wikipedia (#4) and Mozilla (#10) are the only two Websites in Google's top 10 not to display advertising. A noteworthy entry on the 18th spot in the AdPlanner rankings is Twitter (#18), with 98 million unique visitors per month, which doesn't serve ads. Social Media Frenzy - Forbes.com. The Ultimate Guide To 11 BIG Facebook Changes. It Was a Facebook Christmas; Site Hits #1 in US For First Time.
Twitter Growth Plateaus, Facebook Surges - InternetNews.com. Facebook Users Balk at New Dual-Feed Design - TechNewsWorld. Many Facebook users are disgruntled over the latest design changes to the site.
The home page now defaults to a News Feed containing items Facebook selects as most interesting, based on the attention they attract. To see the latest updates, users have to toggle to the Live Feed, which now includes a lot of extra notifications that many users consider junk. ManageEngine OpManager, a powerful NMS for monitoring your network, physical & virtual (VMware/ HyperV) servers, apps & other IT devices. Deploy and start monitoring in less than an hour. Trusted by over a million admins worldwide. Facebook has tweaked its home page once again -- this time offering users two different feeds: The News Feed features updates ranked according to what Facebook determines to be the most enjoyable or important content posted by a user's friends. When users initially log on, they are now presented with the News Feed; they have the option of toggling to the Live Feed if they so choose.
Change It Back. Facebook Growth Explodes, Site Reaches 140 Million Active Users - ReadWriteWeb. If there's any doubt that Facebook is rapidly becoming the next big thing in social networks, you only need look at their recent statistics.
According to new reports, in recent weeks Facebook is growing at a rate of 600,000 users each day, up from 300,000 to 400,000 users per day earlier this quarter. The company is also reporting that, as of today, they have reached 140 million active users. The new data being reported on Inside Facebook is based on their estimations, and not any actual release from the company. That being said, the Inside Facebook site notes that the 600,000 users per day is only a roundabout number - the true number could possibly be even higher: perhaps even as high as 700,000 users per day.
If Facebook continues at this rate, by the end of December they could add a total of 20 million new users. Facebook's Users Are Active and Engaged Facebook did release some figures of their own today that show their users are actively using the site and engaged with the content.