Facebook 3-year Growth Rates (2009 to 2012) by Country

Category: Blog, Facebook

While growth in the United States has slowed tremendously for Facebook (flat to slightly down in the last quarter through end of March 2012), a three-year trend is instructive. During the time from April 1st 2009 to April 1st 2012, Facebook added over 96 million users in the United States (+161%). The optimal growth rate of course is for Brazil with 10879% growth from only 402k to over 43.7 million!… Read More »

Q1 2012 Facebook Growth: Brazil and India Lead Yet Again + Japan Rising

Category: Blog, Facebook

Here at Optimal we looked at the Facebook audience growth numbers for Q1 2012, and Brazil and India have done it again, with gains of 9 million and 4.4 million users respectively over the quarter. Japan is another very big growth story with 1.7mm/27.7% growth over the quarter. Here are the top gainers by country from the end of 2011 to the end of Q1 2012:

Looking at it by biggest growth rate from the end of 2011, (for a gain of at least 30,000 users) you’ll see some of the same names but some big growth rates for many middle-eastern countries.… Read More »