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Facebook Experiences Explosive Growth in Europe

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Comscore released data today showing impressive growth in Europe’s social networking obsession. The most interesting of the data was a whopping 422 percent growth in Facebook visitors between the months of January and July of this year. The second runner up was a site called Bandoo.co ... Continue reading »

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  • Yancey

    1 year ago

    I started two new apps a week ago and I have been watching the networks of people who have used them.

    I've seen users from: Bahamas, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, India, Poland, London, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Venezuela, New Zealand, England, Australia, Spain, Turkey, Serbia, Bolivia, Philippines, France, Japan, Bangladesh, China, South Africa, Greece, Malaysia, Switzerland, Venezuela, Antigua, Federation of Saint Kitts & Nevis, Egypt, Bermuda, Nepal, Thailand

    During this first week it was about 50/50 USA/other parts of the world. Canada made up at least 10% of the "other parts of the world."

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  • trey

    1 year ago

    you're probably having trouble reaching that other site because you're spelling it wrong -- no 'n' in badoo. looks like another social networking site.
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  • Paul Neave

    1 year ago

    Perhaps the biggest reason Germany and other European countries have not embraced Facebook is due to the language barrier. Facebook is ostensibly an English-language website. Hopefully if they can expand their site into other languages more Europeans (and other non-English speakers) will join up.
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  • Dan Peguine

    1 year ago

    I am not sure about your assertion about room to grow in Germany... They have a Facebook clone that is immensely popular:

    http://www.studivz.net/
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/03/german-fac...

    As long as Facebook does not Internationalize and change offer their site in different languages, they will have a weak offering for any non-Anglophone country.
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  • magia3e

    1 year ago

    Actually, figures out from Forrester on European use of social networking sites suggests that Germany's and France's use is quite low when compared to other countries like the UK and Sweden.

    http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/cultura...

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