Nine days on Facebook Wales
We’re all aware social networking sites are growing both in numbers and value, despite lacking a sound commercial basis - but that’s the subject of another post.
What I’m interested to explore here is the numbers game. So I thought why not simply note down the number of people who have signed up to Facebook’s Wales network over a week or so and see how this changes. OK, it’s not that scientific and as the time I noted the numbers varies, an hour or so each way would have produced different results; but it’s the trend I’m really intereted in. Anyway, here are the results thus far:
Date Members
04/11/2007 187,263
03/11/2007 186,188
02/11/2007 184,972
01/11/2007 183,591
31/10/2007 182,127
30/10/2007 180,739
29/10/2007 180,285
28/10/2007 177,695
27/10/2007 176,715
Not bad, 10,548 new users added in just 8 days, and for a company that has done NO ADVERTISING in Wales, or the UK for that matter.
UPDATE: 5 December 2007, 215,805 people have now joined the Wales network on Facebook; that’s 40,000 new users in 40 days.