Monday, October 12, 2009

ASEAN region leads Facebook surge in Jan-Sept '09

Asia, the largest continent on the planet in terms of land mass and population, is driving the traffic surge in Facebook as five particular countries are included in the social networking site’s top ten growth list.

Based on September 2009 Facebook statistics posted by Nick Burcher, Southeast Asian nations Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are among the top countries worldwide with the highest user growth for the three-month period. Another Asian country, India, also broke into the top 10 list.

According to Facebook, Taiwan took the top spot with a growth rate of 1899.42 percent, taking its current number of users to 2,257,340. The Philippines came in 2nd, climbing by 1136.76 percent to 4,832,040 users while Indonesians on Facebook hiked by 879.55 percent to 8,786,920 snatching the 3rd place.

India, the most highly-populated nation in South Asia, sat on the 5th spot with 3,980,260 Facebook users, 271.54 percent hike from January numbers while Malaysia came in 7th with 207.97 percent upswing to 2,619,040 subscribers.

Rounding up the top 10 are Mexico at the 4th slot with a hike of 228.44 percent to 4,731,700, Germany at 6th with 208.71 percent climb to 3,875,800, Argentina at the 8th mark with 167.64 percent rise to 6,036,060 8, Spain at 9th with 143.22 percent growth to 6,314,220 and Egypt at 10th with 130.51 percent increase to 1,896,120.

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