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| Facebook Averaged Almost 8 New Registrations Per Second In 2010 | Top |
| Candytech , a Czech company that helps companies create and measure Facebook marketing campaigns, has gathered a wealth of Facebook-specific data over the years via its statistics portal SocialBakers . The company has put together this great infographic, offering an overview of Facebook’s growth and population throughout 2010. Some key stats: - Facebook ballooned from 337 million to 585 million users in 2010 - That means roughly 7.9 new users signed up every second of the year, on average - USA and the UK are in the top 3 countries, but Indonesia is second with 32.1 million users - The top 10 countries make up nearly 60% of all users - The large majority of users is between 18 and 34 years old - … but the fastest growing age group is 65+ (+124%) - Three food brands (Coca-Cola, Starbucks and Oreo) make up the top 3 brands on Facebook - Michael Jackson may have passed away, but his legacy is strong: 26.2 million fans CrunchBase Information Facebook Candytech Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Egypt Shuts Down Noor, Its Last ISP | Top |
| We’re hearing reports on Twitter that the coverage of Noor Group’s DSL service, Egypt’s last standing ISP which powers the Egyptian Stock Exchange as well as sites of major brands like Coca Cola and Exxon Mobile, is being shut down, meaning the nation will lose nearly all the remaining high-speed links to the outside world. According to Jacob Applebaum the shut down is occurring in stages and certain sites are still online, “noor.net shut all except NTG, the National Technology Group providing IT processing to the aviation, banking and financial sectors.” The ISP’s website itself is offline. @ioerror Jacob Appelbaum It looks like our last terrestrial hope has been shut down; my connections to systems on Noor are all down. #egypt #jan25 about 13 hours ago via web Retweet Reply Effective Measure CEO Scott Julian confirms that the traffic from Noor has trickled to a halt and the last two ISPs are offline, “Effective Measure was recording active traffic from Noor coming in the hour of 11pm last night up until midnight Egypt time but from 12am onwards, we have no active sessions from Noor IP addresses and no data has appeared in the logs.” Julian also points out these connectivity blackouts happened around same time as the last batch and posits that this is a well organized effort. Dial-up is presumably still working as Google and Twitter have just launched a speak-to-tweet service at http://twitter.com/speak2tweet . Update: Internet Monitoring service Rensys is confirming the Noor shut down. Applebaum has tweeted out this graph of the current set of IPv6 addresses online in Egypt. Noor is not one of them. | |
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