98 datasets found
  1. Meta: number of employees 2004-2024

    • statista.com
    Updated Jun 25, 2025
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Statista (2025). Meta: number of employees 2004-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-facebook-employees/
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    Jun 25, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    Meta Platforms had ****** full-time employees as of December 2024, down from ****** people in 2023. As of December 2023, more than ******* employees at tech companies worldwide were laid off throughout the year across more than 1,000 companies. Facebook: how it all beganIn 2003, a sophomore at named Mark Zuckerberg hacked into protected areas of the university's computer network in order to find photos of other students. He then would pair two of them next to each other on a program called “Facemash” and ask users to choose the more attractive person. At the beginning of 2004, Zuckerberg launched “The Facebook,” a social network dedicated to Harvard students, which later grew to encompass Columbia, Yale and Stanford. The popularity of this new service sky-rocketed and in mid-2004, Zuckerberg interrupted his studies and moved his operation to Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. By 2006, Facebook was open to the general public. In 2020, the company reported almost ** billion U.S. dollars in revenue and a net income of ***** billion US dollars. It is also the most popular social network in the world, with *** billion monthly active users as of December 2020. Facebook employee diversity criticismLike many other tech companies, Facebook has been criticized for having a diversity problem. As of June 2020, tech positions, as well as management roles in U.S. offices were overwhelmingly occupied by men. Furthermore, almost ** percent of Facebook employees in the U.S. are White and only *** percent are African-American, which has sparked concern regarding representation and equal opportunities. Around **** percent of senior level positions are occupied by White employees and only *** percent by Hispanic-Americans.

  2. T

    Meta | FB - Employees Total Number

    • tradingeconomics.com
    csv, excel, json, xml
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    TRADING ECONOMICS, Meta | FB - Employees Total Number [Dataset]. https://tradingeconomics.com/fb:us:employees
    Explore at:
    excel, xml, json, csvAvailable download formats
    Dataset authored and provided by
    TRADING ECONOMICS
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Time period covered
    Jan 1, 2000 - Jul 13, 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Meta reported 67.32K in Employees for its fiscal year ending in December of 2023. Data for Meta | FB - Employees Total Number including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last July in 2025.

  3. Facebook UK's number of employees 2011-2019

    • statista.com
    Updated Jul 10, 2025
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Statista (2025). Facebook UK's number of employees 2011-2019 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/347751/facebook-uk-number-of-employees/
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    Jul 10, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United Kingdom
    Description

    This statistic displays the number of individuals employed by Facebook UK in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2019. The number of employees based in the UK has increased significantly since 2011, reaching an average of ***** employees monthly in 2019.

  4. Facebook: number of employees in Spain 2014-2019

    • statista.com
    Updated May 24, 2024
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Statista (2024). Facebook: number of employees in Spain 2014-2019 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1200680/facebook-employees-in-spain/
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    May 24, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    Spain
    Description

    Facebook has come a long way since its humble beginnings in Spain in 2008, and its expaning strategy has reflected on the company's staff. As can be seen, the number of employees of the company rose from 12 to 56 workers from 2014 to 2019. It is a small number of the Facebook's global workforce but a significant increase for the Spanish subsidiary.

  5. Meta: U.S. corporate demography 2014-2022, by ethnicity

    • statista.com
    Updated Dec 4, 2024
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Statista (2024). Meta: U.S. corporate demography 2014-2022, by ethnicity [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/311847/facebook-employee-ethnicity-us/
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    Dec 4, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    In 2022, 6.5 percent of Meta employees in the United States identified as Hispanic and 4.9 percent identified as Black. Asian employees accounted for over 46.5 percent of the overall workforce, whilst white employees made up 37.6 percent of Meta's workforce.

  6. b

    Facebook Revenue and Usage Statistics (2025)

    • businessofapps.com
    Updated Aug 8, 2017
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Business of Apps (2017). Facebook Revenue and Usage Statistics (2025) [Dataset]. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/facebook-statistics/
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    Aug 8, 2017
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Business of Apps
    License

    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    Facebook probably needs no introduction; nonetheless, here is a quick history of the company. The world’s biggest and most-famous social network was launched by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a...

  7. w

    Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Astoria

    • workwithdata.com
    Updated May 6, 2025
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Work With Data (2025). Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Astoria [Dataset]. https://www.workwithdata.com/datasets/companies?col=company%2Cemployees%2Cfacebook_link&f=1&fcol0=city&fop0=%3D&fval0=Astoria
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    May 6, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Work With Data
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    This dataset is about companies in Astoria. It has 161 rows. It features 3 columns: employees, and Facebook link.

  8. T

    FB Financial | FBK - Employees Total Number

    • tradingeconomics.com
    csv, excel, json, xml
    Updated Dec 15, 2024
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    TRADING ECONOMICS (2024). FB Financial | FBK - Employees Total Number [Dataset]. https://tradingeconomics.com/fbk:us:employees
    Explore at:
    json, csv, xml, excelAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Dec 15, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    TRADING ECONOMICS
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Time period covered
    Jan 1, 2000 - Jul 13, 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Fb Financial reported 1.49K in Employees for its fiscal quarter ending in December of 2024. Data for FB Financial | FBK - Employees Total Number including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last July in 2025.

  9. M

    FB Bancorp Number of Employees 2024-2025 | FBLA

    • macrotrends.net
    csv
    Updated Jun 30, 2025
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    MACROTRENDS (2025). FB Bancorp Number of Employees 2024-2025 | FBLA [Dataset]. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FBLA/fb-bancorp/number-of-employees
    Explore at:
    csvAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Jun 30, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    MACROTRENDS
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Time period covered
    2010 - 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    FB Bancorp number of employees from 2024 to 2025. Number of employees can be defined as a measure of financial performance calculated as operating cash flow minus capital expenditures, expressed on a per share basis

  10. M

    FB Financial Number of Employees 2014-2025 | FBK

    • macrotrends.net
    csv
    Updated Jul 31, 2025
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    MACROTRENDS (2025). FB Financial Number of Employees 2014-2025 | FBK [Dataset]. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FBK/fb-financial/number-of-employees
    Explore at:
    csvAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Jul 31, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    MACROTRENDS
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Time period covered
    2010 - 2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    FB Financial number of employees from 2014 to 2025. Number of employees can be defined as a measure of financial performance calculated as operating cash flow minus capital expenditures, expressed on a per share basis

  11. w

    Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Ecuador

    • workwithdata.com
    Updated May 6, 2025
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Work With Data (2025). Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Ecuador [Dataset]. https://www.workwithdata.com/datasets/companies?col=company%2Cemployees%2Cfacebook_link&f=1&fcol0=country&fop0=%3D&fval0=Ecuador
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    May 6, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Work With Data
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Area covered
    Ecuador
    Description

    This dataset is about companies in Ecuador. It has 2,057 rows. It features 3 columns: employees, and Facebook link.

  12. Workforce of leading global online companies 2014-2024

    • statista.com
    • ai-chatbox.pro
    Updated Jun 20, 2025
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Statista (2025). Workforce of leading global online companies 2014-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/271575/number-of-employees-in-web-companies/
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    Jun 20, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    In 2023, Amazon.com was the top-ranked internet company based on number of employees. The e-commerce giant reported a workforce of more than **** million employees. Amazon has consistently topped the ranking as the online company with the biggest workforce, but the global COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap as e-commerce has boomed since. During the same period, Meta (formerly Facebook Inc.) had a total of ****** full-time employees. Additionally, Google's parent company Alphabet had ******* full-time workers in 2024.

  13. w

    Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Mauritania

    • workwithdata.com
    Updated May 6, 2025
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Work With Data (2025). Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Mauritania [Dataset]. https://www.workwithdata.com/datasets/companies?col=company%2Cemployees%2Cfacebook_link&f=1&fcol0=country&fop0=%3D&fval0=Mauritania
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    May 6, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Work With Data
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Area covered
    Mauritania
    Description

    This dataset is about companies in Mauritania. It has 41 rows. It features 3 columns: employees, and Facebook link.

  14. w

    Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Catano

    • workwithdata.com
    Updated May 6, 2025
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Work With Data (2025). Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Catano [Dataset]. https://www.workwithdata.com/datasets/companies?col=company%2Cemployees%2Cfacebook_link&f=1&fcol0=city&fop0=%3D&fval0=Catano
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    May 6, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Work With Data
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    This dataset is about companies in Catano. It has 1 row. It features 3 columns: employees, and Facebook link.

  15. X/Twitter: number of employees 2008-2021

    • statista.com
    Updated May 22, 2024
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Statista (2024). X/Twitter: number of employees 2008-2021 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/272140/employees-of-twitter/
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    May 22, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    At the end of the most recently reported year, microblogging and social networking company X (formerly Twitter) employed 7,500 people, up from 5,500 people in the previous year.

    X/Twitter's corporate demography

    In 2020, the majority of X/Twitter'semployees were male with a share of 57 percent and of a white ethnicity with 41 percent. African American and Latinx ethnicities were severely underrepresented with only 6.5 and 5.4 percent share respectively of all employees at Twitter.

    Distribution of X/Twitter employees by gender and department in 2020 is revealing. In tech departments, over 73 percent of employees were male. Men also dominated the leadership departments with 62 percent. X/Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in March 2006 and since then, a man has always held top positions of chairman and CEO. The only department at X/Twitter whereby women were represented well was in the Non-tech departments. In 2017, women held 53.7 percent of non-tech roles. Other social media companies The gender landscape at Facebook in 2020 followed a similar vein. The distribution of Facebook employees worldwide by gender and department revealed that men dominated the tech departments with a 76 percent share and senior level positions with a 66 percent share.

  16. Saudi Arabia Employment: ES: Saudi: ow FB: 20 Employees and Above

    • ceicdata.com
    Updated Jan 15, 2025
    + more versions
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    CEICdata.com (2025). Saudi Arabia Employment: ES: Saudi: ow FB: 20 Employees and Above [Dataset]. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/saudi-arabia/employment-economic-survey-of-establishments-by-industry-and-size-saudi/employment-es-saudi-ow-fb-20-employees-and-above
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    Jan 15, 2025
    Dataset provided by
    CEIC Data
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Time period covered
    Dec 1, 2010 - Dec 1, 2016
    Area covered
    Saudi Arabia
    Variables measured
    Employment
    Description

    Saudi Arabia Employment: ES: Saudi: ow FB: 20 Employees and Above data was reported at 25,759.000 Person in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 25,328.000 Person for 2015. Saudi Arabia Employment: ES: Saudi: ow FB: 20 Employees and Above data is updated yearly, averaging 19,142.000 Person from Dec 2010 (Median) to 2016, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 25,759.000 Person in 2016 and a record low of 16,092.000 Person in 2010. Saudi Arabia Employment: ES: Saudi: ow FB: 20 Employees and Above data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by General Authority for Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Saudi Arabia – Table SA.G014: Employment: Economic Survey of Establishments: by Industry and Size: Saudi.

  17. Facebook Global State of Small Business Survey 2021 - Argentina, Australia,...

    • datacatalog.ihsn.org
    • catalog.ihsn.org
    Updated Nov 30, 2021
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Facebook (2021). Facebook Global State of Small Business Survey 2021 - Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indon [Dataset]. https://datacatalog.ihsn.org/catalog/9887
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    Nov 30, 2021
    Dataset provided by
    Facebookhttps://www.fb.com/
    OECD
    World Bank
    Time period covered
    2021
    Area covered
    Brazil, Canada, Argentina, Colombia, Germany, Australia, Ghana, India, Egypt, Belgium
    Description

    Abstract

    To gain a deeper understanding of the perspectives, challenges, and opportunities for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook and partners collaborate to collect and share timely information with the broader community. The State of Small Business (SoSB) Survey surveys SMBs, employees, and consumers from approximately 30 countries across the globe. This combination of survey respondents allows us to evaluate how the impacts on SMBs, their employees, and their clients have developed throughout 2021.

    Geographic coverage

    Argentina Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Colombia Egypt France Germany Ghana India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Kenya Mexico Nigeria Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal Russian Federation (the) South Africa Spain Taiwan Turkey United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United States of America (the) Vietnam

    Analysis unit

    The study describes small and medium-sized business owners, their employees and consumers.

    Universe

    The survey uses a random sample of SMB leaders with Facebook Page administrator privileges and of the general population of Facebook users. Therefore, the sample covered in the survey is representative of SMB leaders surveyable through Facebook at the country level.

    Kind of data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Sampling procedure

    The survey reaches a random sample of SMB leaders with Facebook Page administrator privileges and of the general population of Facebook users. A random sample of firms, representing the target population in each country, is selected to respond to the survey. To achieve better representation of the broader small business population on Facebook, Facebook also weights our results based on known characteristics of the Facebook Page admin population.

    Mode of data collection

    Internet [int]

    Research instrument

    Questions cover a range of topics depending on the survey wave such as business characteristics, challenges, financials and strategy in addition to custom modules related to regulation, access to finance, digital technologies, reduction in revenues, business closures, reduction of employees and challenges/needs of the business

    Response rate

    Response rates to online surveys vary widely depending on a number of factors including survey length, region, strength of the relationship with invitees, incentive mechanisms, invite copy, interest of respondents in the topic and survey design. To achieve better representation of the broader small business population on Facebook, Facebookwe also weights our results based on known characteristics of the Facebook Page admin population.

    Note: Response rates are calculated as the number of respondents who completed the survey divided by the total number of SMBs invited.

    Sampling error estimates

    Any survey data is prone to several forms of error and biases that need to be considered to understand how closely the results reflect the intended population. In particular, the following components of the total survey error are noteworthy: Sampling error is a natural characteristic of every survey based on samples and reflects the uncertainty in any survey result that is attributable to the fact that not the whole population is surveyed.Other factors beyond sampling error that contribute to such potential differences are frame or coverage error (sampling frame of Page owners does not include all relevant businesses but also may include individuals that don’t represent businesses), and nonresponse error.

    Note that the sample is meant to reflect the population of businesses on Facebook, not the population of small businesses in general. This group of digitized SMEs is itself a community worthy of deeper consideration and of considerable policy interest. However, care should be taken when extrapolating to the population of SMEs in general. Moreover, future work should evaluate the external validity of the sample. Particularly, respondents should be compared to the broader population of SMEs on Facebook, and the economy as a whole.

  18. Potential Issues with FB Advertising Algorithms...

    • figshare.com
    png
    Updated Jun 2, 2023
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    OS BH-Labs (2023). Potential Issues with FB Advertising Algorithms... [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.767331.v1
    Explore at:
    pngAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Jun 2, 2023
    Dataset provided by
    Figsharehttp://figshare.com/
    Authors
    OS BH-Labs
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    This fileset contains a series of screenshots taken from our facebook advertising account. A few days ago we noticed that some negative "SEO" tactics, for lack of a better term, were having a negative impact on the performance of ads and fan engagement on the facebook page that we've been building.

    I developed a custom software package, which utilizes nueural networks I've developed, to identify a target demographic, and suggest advertising content for said target demographic.

    After a short training period we were able to create advertisemsents on facebook that averaged a cost of 0.01 cents per like. We also had a fan page engagement of nearly 4 times that of major brands like Wal-Mart.

    Shortly after we began to obtain success we started noticing problems with our page. Since we have a stalker issue, we determined that the issues with our page were likely related to him.

    We assued this because we had a disproportinately high number of spammy, negative, and inapporpriate comments on our posts. Offline harassment of our staff by the stalker also increased significantly during this time.

    Curiously, we believe that the incident with the stalker allowed us to ascertain some interesting observations about Facebook's algorithims, which I've outlined below.

    We believe, after reseraching this issue, that Facebook's algorithims suffer from the following issues:

    1. They are easily gamed. We think that Facebook's algorithims are hypersensitive to negative comments being made on a post, and conversely likely positive ones as well. If a post is hidden, the comments are negative, or if a user interacts with the post negatively in some way, then Facebook's algorithims will "punish" your page.

    2. We think that a series of scripted fake bot accounts would easily cause the issues that we've been expriencing.

    As you can see from the data provided, over 90% of our likes come from paid facebook advertisement, therefore we do not have a significant number of fake accounts on our page brought in by third party advertising because we didn't do any of that.

    Moreover, we did not send any of our fans obtained via mailing lists, or offline contact to our facebook page, those fans participate with us via email and/or through our private Google+ community.

    So it is safe to say that our problems have not been caused by purchasing a large amount of fake likes from any third party vendor.

    In addition, because our likes were gained very quickly, at a rate of about 2.5k likes a day, we do not believe that we have suffered from changes in the general demographic of our Facebook fan base over time.

    Yet almost immediately after we started expericing trolling issues with our page, we also noticed a dip in the number of fans our posts were shown to by Facebook, and the performance of our ads began to go down, even though the content on our page had not changed.

    We attributed this to holes in Facebook's algorithims, and potentially to the excessive use of fake bot accounts by Facebook itself.

    We cannot prove the latter satement, but there have been similar reports before. Reference - http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/08/01/facebook-investigating-claims-that-80-of-ad-clicks-come-from-bots/

    This article from Forbes outlines how one startup company repoted that up to 80% of their Facebook likes were fake bot accounts even though they paid for advertising directly through Facebook.

    Our reserach suggests that Facebook's advertising platform functions as follows: - An advertiser pays for likes with Facebook, and the quality of the content on their page is initially assessed by those who are liking the page, but once the page obtains a following, we believe that the quality of the content is assessed by how many people like the posts on the page directly after they are posted.

    If a post gets hidden, marked as spammed, skipped over, whatever, then we beleive that Facebook kicks that post out of the newsfeeds. If this happens to a significant number of posts on the page, then we believe that Facebook places the page on an advertising black-list.

    Once on this black-list ads will begin to perform poorly, and content will drop out of newsfeeds causing even the most active page to go silent.

    We tested this by posting pictures of attractive blond women, which with our demographic would have normally obtained a large number of likes and we struggled to get even 10 likes at over 20k page likes when we would have previosuly obtained almost 100 likes without boosting at only 5k page likes.

    Why this probably isn't seen more often: In most cases this probably takes a while to occur as pages become old and fans grow bored, but in our case, because we have a stalker trolling our page with what appears to be hundres of scripted bot accounts, the effect was seen immediately.

    Our data suggests that it became a tug of war between our stalker's army of fake bot accounts (making spammy comments, hiding our posts from newsfeeds, etc) and the real fans that actually like our page (who were voting our conent up - i.e. liking it, etc).

    If you look at the graph of page likes in the figures provided - you can see that the darker purple are the fans we obtained via facebook advertising, well over 90%. We believe that the light purple (the "organic" fans) is mostly comprised of our stalker's fake drone accounts. We have less than 20 family members and friends liking our page, when we began this experiment we asked them not to interact with our page or the content.

    In conclusion: We still have a lot more work to do, but it is highly likely that many Facebook likes are either scripted bots, and/or that Facebook's "weighting" algorithims are very suceptible to gaming via negative "SEO" tactics. Conversely, they are likely sensitive to gaming via positive "SEO" tactics as well.

    Of course we cannot say for certain where the Facebook accounts that like a page come from without acess to their internal systems, but the evidence does strongly suggest that Facebook might be plagued with a large quantity of bot accounts, and that their algorithim has to be sensitive to actions from live users, so that the quality of the content can be easily ascertained. Otherwise it would be pretty easy for an advertiser to game Facebook's system by paying for, and getting, a large quantity of likes for content that is not appealing to any significant group of people.

    Again we have to reiterate that we have no solid proof of this, but our data strongly suggests that this is the case.

    We have reported the issues to Facebook, but interestingly, after we made it clear that we were going to analyze and investigate the issues with our page, we have been suddenly and incessently plagued with a never ending stream of "technical difficulties" related to our advertising account.

    If you'd like to collaborate on this project, please feel free to email me at Jamie@ITSmoleculardesign.com.

  19. w

    Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Pearl City

    • workwithdata.com
    Updated May 6, 2025
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Work With Data (2025). Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Pearl City [Dataset]. https://www.workwithdata.com/datasets/companies?col=company%2Cemployees%2Cfacebook_link&f=1&fcol0=city&fop0=%3D&fval0=Pearl+City
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    May 6, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Work With Data
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Area covered
    Pearl City
    Description

    This dataset is about companies in Pearl City. It has 24 rows. It features 3 columns: employees, and Facebook link.

  20. w

    Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Chipata

    • workwithdata.com
    Updated May 6, 2025
    Share
    FacebookFacebook
    TwitterTwitter
    Email
    Click to copy link
    Link copied
    Close
    Cite
    Work With Data (2025). Dataset of employees and Facebook link of companies in Chipata [Dataset]. https://www.workwithdata.com/datasets/companies?col=company%2Cemployees%2Cfacebook_link&f=1&fcol0=city&fop0=%3D&fval0=Chipata
    Explore at:
    Dataset updated
    May 6, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Work With Data
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Area covered
    Chipata
    Description

    This dataset is about companies in Chipata. It has 1 row. It features 3 columns: employees, and Facebook link.

Share
FacebookFacebook
TwitterTwitter
Email
Click to copy link
Link copied
Close
Cite
Statista (2025). Meta: number of employees 2004-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-facebook-employees/
Organization logo

Meta: number of employees 2004-2024

Explore at:
25 scholarly articles cite this dataset (View in Google Scholar)
Dataset updated
Jun 25, 2025
Dataset authored and provided by
Statistahttp://statista.com/
Area covered
Worldwide
Description

Meta Platforms had ****** full-time employees as of December 2024, down from ****** people in 2023. As of December 2023, more than ******* employees at tech companies worldwide were laid off throughout the year across more than 1,000 companies. Facebook: how it all beganIn 2003, a sophomore at named Mark Zuckerberg hacked into protected areas of the university's computer network in order to find photos of other students. He then would pair two of them next to each other on a program called “Facemash” and ask users to choose the more attractive person. At the beginning of 2004, Zuckerberg launched “The Facebook,” a social network dedicated to Harvard students, which later grew to encompass Columbia, Yale and Stanford. The popularity of this new service sky-rocketed and in mid-2004, Zuckerberg interrupted his studies and moved his operation to Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. By 2006, Facebook was open to the general public. In 2020, the company reported almost ** billion U.S. dollars in revenue and a net income of ***** billion US dollars. It is also the most popular social network in the world, with *** billion monthly active users as of December 2020. Facebook employee diversity criticismLike many other tech companies, Facebook has been criticized for having a diversity problem. As of June 2020, tech positions, as well as management roles in U.S. offices were overwhelmingly occupied by men. Furthermore, almost ** percent of Facebook employees in the U.S. are White and only *** percent are African-American, which has sparked concern regarding representation and equal opportunities. Around **** percent of senior level positions are occupied by White employees and only *** percent by Hispanic-Americans.

Search
Clear search
Close search
Google apps
Main menu