The 3 month look at Facebook growth in Canada
{ June 25th, 2007 }
So here is the 3 month look at the growth of the Canadian FaceBook scene. We continue to see some impressive growth of the regional networks. What is really interesting to see is the smaller communities continue to out pace some of the larger centers. I think that this is really interesting and I wonder how it will fair over the long term. From the usage I see and looking at how people are integrating their lives into Facebook it really speaks well for the future.
What I think is really interesting is how this network can be used from a local and regional level. I think we are going to start hearing the “facebook vote” referred to as a new demographic in the Canadian electoral scene. How can it not …. I know in Sudbury there were 54,000 votes for mayor. Now with nearly 50,000 people in that network it really seems to be a powerful potential audience in the vote. So who will live and die by the face book vote?
Will keep looking at this data and see what else we can learn from this data. Will be taking another look to watch the growth of the networks for the 4 month look in July.
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Hope you enjoyed the numbers.
Cheers
Scott
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June 25th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Nice, Scott.
Would be good to see a correlation of the size of the city vs. % growth – epidemiologists use models to predict virus outbreaks – it would be interesting to see whether Facebook growth complies with such models.
Cheers, Martin.
June 30th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Damn Scott.
I just spent a lazy hour or so updating yours and Ryan’s numbers from April.
I was looking for your trackback info and I came across this post.
So good job on updating the numbers. Now I have no excuse for not cleaning my basement
I put my spreadsheet up (which has a few more items then your post) here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pGKddWq3qzxlMCQrBPRQbNw
July 24th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Very interesting data. Thanks for putting it together.
One problem I see with Facebook networks is that they do not always line up with the communities they purport to represent.
For example, there is no network for Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Facebook members from the Sault are lumped into the Sudbury network. A third of Sudbury members may actually be from the Sault. Facebook clearly needs to work on this.
July 24th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Further to Steve’s comment, Facebook also has some Canadian communities that it lumps into American networks.
For example, I’m in the Juneau Alaska Facebook network, as is most of Northwest BC and the Yukon.
July 24th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Yes, and there’s no Victoria network, despite it being a provincial capital. Almost all Victorians seem to be in the Vancouver network.
July 24th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I have posted my latest version of this.
http://www.thoughtballoons.net/?p=172