Facebook stats for Ireland - 131,660 Ireland based people on it now?
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Using the live details from the advanced flyer option in Facebook, you can see some stats and facts on people on Facebook.
Update: This makes Techmeme already?
From location Ireland we get the below stats. Remember too that these are stats on what people have offered, thus 131k people but only 89k or so have said whether they are male or female. You don’t have to specify a lot of the below or in the case of age, don’t have to be honest.
Sex:
37,440 Men
51,900 Women
Ages:
117,880 people between 18 and 35 years old
55,020 people between 18 and 25 years old
71,980 people between 25 and 35 years old
7,340 people between 18 and 19 years old in Ireland
Employers:
About 1,160 people in Ireland who work at Microsoft
About 320 people in Ireland who work at Google
About 120 people in Ireland who work at IBM
About 140 people in Ireland who work at Accenture
About 80 people in Ireland who work at eBay
Fewer than 20 people in Ireland who work at Oracle
Fewer than 20 people in Ireland who work at SAP
Fewer than 20 people in Ireland who work at Oireachtas
Fewer than 20 people in Ireland who work at Vodafone
Fewer than 20 people in Ireland who work at Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister)
[ I don't think numbers go below 20, still interesting that people from Taoiseach's put it down on their profile ]
Colleges:
About 8,340 people in Ireland who are in college
About 400 people in Ireland who are at University College Cork
About 2,160 people in Ireland who are at Trinity College Dublin
about 1,300 people in Ireland who are at UCD Ireland
About 640 people in Ireland who are at NUI Galway
About 180 people in Ireland who are at DIT Ireland
Relationships:
About 30,880 people who are single in Ireland
About 11,320 people who are married in Ireland
Fun Combinations:
About 1,840 liberal men older than 25 who are single in Ireland
Now go find your own stats too.
Update: UK Statistics.
Update: Irish Times coverage.
Irish Examiner coverage.
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October 21st, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Great find Damo - better than trying to get blood out of the stone that is Facebook in the states. Roll on December when their Soho office opens
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:36 am
Facebook stats for Ireland: 132 K, mostly young….
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October 22nd, 2007 at 5:15 am
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October 22nd, 2007 at 8:07 am
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October 22nd, 2007 at 6:16 pm
why so many women?
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Hmm. When you do a search on flyers it says UCC has 400 people. Yet in the UCC Network it lists 1,631. Even adding alumni the figures seem drastically different. So too with TCD… at 6,971 rather than 2,160. UCD Ireland lists 4,159 members.
As far as I know uni networks require a uni email address for validation, so the numbers seem pretty reliable.
Why the discrepancy I wonder?
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:16 pm
How many in the UCC network have listed their Education? How many in the UCC network are just over for a semester?
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:23 pm
No idea! Advanced search gives some clues as to nationality, but how does Facebook define people as UCC students?
Is it people currently listed as undergrads + postgrads? Current + former students? Must you list your subjects in order to be considered a current student?
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Gavin, plenty of people on the TCD or UCC networks aren’t members of the Ireland network.
Moreover, lots of people don’t join the regional networks they’re based in, but rather where they’re from - so, for example, I’m in the Ireland network even though I’m currently living in Canada. Quite a few of my friends who live abroad are also in the Ireland network. Similarly, you’ll get a few people on the TCD/UCC/etc. networks who are members of (say) the New York network.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:36 pm
I understand Cillian, but does that make the figures more or less reliable?
Plenty of people who are Irish and live in Ireland don’t join regional networks at all - but is Facebook going on the networks or on the Hometown etc? So too with other networks.
According to the flyer there are 20 people in UCC, who are in also in the United States network, but when you do an advanced search you find far more who call the US their hometown but are in UCC.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Gavin, you do realise being in Ireland and in the Ireland network is different, that being in UCC and in the UCC network is different and that you can be in more than one network at the same time but not in more than one country?
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:49 am
I do Damien… I thought my comment made that clear, obviously not!
I just wonder what metrics the flyers thing is using? It appears it no longer shows numbers either.
Am I just missing something?
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:26 am
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October 28th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
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October 30th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
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December 7th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Hi Damien,
Louise Holden of the Times here. I’m doing a piece on Facebook and Irish universities - I was hoping you might give me a bit of background. Can you mail me if you can help? Thanks a million.
Louise
January 13th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Feel like a granny, can’t figure out how all this bebo, which i think is for kids, and facebook thingy work. Can someone explain it to me?
January 20th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
damien, can you/anyone tell me what the top 10 biggest online communities in Ireland - assume bebo in there? who else?