You have seen a photo on Facebook with a bear that threatens a guy standing on a mountain top and you are instructed to comment the photo with the word “Jump” and watch and see what happens? But you don’t want to do that because you assume that this is bullshit? Or you might even [...]
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3 month ago we announced that Facebook will soon hit the 4 million user mark in South Africa. At that moment Facebook had 3.904.420 active South African users. But it took longer than expected as you can see in the chart below. In May 2011, Facebook “only” counted 3.797.180 users in South Africa. But this [...]
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Pixable, an US based startup that offers sleek social photo creation and categorization tools for Facebook, recently created an infographic which shows what happens when people upload photos to Facebook. Pixable states that more than six billion photos are uploaded to Facebook every month and that this number will further increase. The infographic describes the [...]
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We already analysed South Africa’s most popular cities by looking at the number of fans on different city fan pages. Today we want to look into the official Facebook user numbers by South African cities. It turns out that Johannesburg has the largest number of active Facebook users with more than 816.000 users logging in [...]
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I just found a new video which shows some interesting Facebook stats and raises the question how the world would be different without Facebook. Thanks to Kelly Lazy for this amazing motion-infographic video. What people are looking for:imagine a world without facebook | imagine de video en facebook | imagine the world without social media | life without facebook statistics | life without [...]
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Facebook published a new white paper which describes best practices for reaching your businesses objectives on Facebook. The 14 pages long pdf-file contains among others: • A short illustration of the Facebook ecosystem and the approach with marketing projects • Five guiding principles that help you to market your business It also give insights for the [...]
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As at April 4, 2011 there were 3.904.420 active Facebook users in South Africa. We are pretty sure that South Africa will hit the 4 million user mark this month. What people are looking for:facebook statistics south africa | Facebook users by age | facebook south africa | South African Woman facebook | statistics of facebook south africa 2012 | facebook statistics | south africa facebook users | facebook [...]
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Facebook’s terms and conditions doesn’t allow businesses to operate a personal profile as these profiles are solely foreseen for real people and not for businesses. However, many businesses still use a personal page to promote their business. Most of them still struggle to convert their profile into a page as they would need to start [...]
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There are so many posts on Facebook every day. Your friends write about their activities and emotions. It happens quite often that you think how boring this is and who might care about it. But sometimes there are funny and special characters within the mass of posts. Signs like ♥, ☼, ☎ make the typeface [...]
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Welcome to our new series of monthly Facebook statistics in South Africa. This article provides you with the latest user numbers for Facebook in South Africa. 2 week ago, Marc Cowan, Head of Emerging Market at Facebook, gave a presentation in Cape Town on the social change. He said that soon South Africa will hit [...]
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