Comments on: Facebook’s Own Statistics Show Content-Sharing Increase, New Status-Update Trends, and More

By: Facebook EdgeRank 101 | Tim on Everything EdgeRank

Facebook EdgeRank 101 | Tim on Everything EdgeRank — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:07:05 +0000

[...] is to Facebook’s benefit to make sure that within the average time spent by a user per day (55 minutes), you get the most relevant stories from friends and other connections, like Pages, into the top of [...]

By: Social Media aus Managementsicht | Sebastian Schneider

Social Media aus Managementsicht | Sebastian Schneider — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:09:01 +0000

[...] dann kann man sehr leicht Nachrichten übersehen. Es gibt also keinen richtigen Posteingang. Laut Facebookinside haben Facebook-User durchschnittlich 130 Freunde. Wenn jeder dieser Freunde im Monat nur 20 [...]

By: Social Media aus Managementsicht

Social Media aus Managementsicht — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:54:47 +0000

By: eModeration's Social Media Round-up #16 - A Sense of Community - Blogs - Brand Republic

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:39:08 +0000

[...] looked, well, inside Facebook this week, and in an all-round-enlightening analysis revealed that content-sharing has taken a massive leap, from 1 billion items per week, to 2 billion in September – and now 3.5 billion per week as of [...]

By: Thomas Baekdal

Thomas Baekdal — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:02:28 +0000

Ahh… I wonder how I missed that part. Thanks!

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:43:44 +0000

Hi Thomas,

I am indeed taking size into account. Here’s what I said in the post:

“And, as anyone familiar with basic statistics knows, growth rates slow over time even if numerical size increases at a consistent pace.”

By: Thomas Baekdal

Thomas Baekdal — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:34:34 +0000

Very interesting information. But are you taking the difference in size into account when comparing growth?

20% growth of 200 million = 40 million people
16.7% of 350 million = 58 million people

As far as I read it, the actual growth rate is not declining – it simply less %, because there are more people. If the percentage rate stayed the same then Facebook would have to grow at an exponential rate.