Comments on: The 3 month look at Facebook growth in Canada

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:06:22 +0000

I have posted my latest version of this.
http://www.thoughtballoons.net/?p=172

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:27:55 +0000

Yes, and there’s no Victoria network, despite it being a provincial capital. Almost all Victorians seem to be in the Vancouver network.

By: Miguel Borges

Miguel Borges — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:27:48 +0000

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.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:58:35 +0000

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.

By: Bryce Johnson

Bryce Johnson — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:35:24 +0000

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

By: Martin Cleaver

Martin Cleaver — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:37:30 +0000

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.