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  1. Facebook users in the United States 2019-2028

    • statista.com
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    Updated Dec 12, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Facebook users in the United States 2019-2028 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-facebook-users/
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    Dec 12, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    The number of Facebook users in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 12.6 million users (+5.04 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Facebook user base is estimated to reach 262.8 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Facebook users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform facebook, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period and count multiple accounts by persons only once.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

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    Data from: Facebook Users

    • searchlogistics.com
    Updated Apr 1, 2025
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    (2025). Facebook Users [Dataset]. https://www.searchlogistics.com/learn/statistics/social-media-user-statistics/
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    Apr 1, 2025
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Facebook is fast approaching 3 billion monthly active users. That’s about 36% of the world’s entire population that log in and use Facebook at least once a month.

  3. Facebook access penetration 2022, by device

    • statista.com
    Updated May 8, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Facebook access penetration 2022, by device [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/377808/distribution-of-facebook-users-by-device/
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    Dataset updated
    May 8, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Jan 2022
    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    Facebook is the leading social network worldwide, and its accessibility through multiple mobile apps as well as its mobile website. In January 2021, over 98 percent of active user accounts worldwide accessed the social network via any kind of mobile phone.

    Facebook in mobile-first markets India is thecountry with the largest Facebook audience by far, with 340 million users on the platform, followed the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil all of which have more than 100 million Facebook users each. With the exception of the United States, all of these are digital markets with mobile-first audiences. In many emerging markets, mobile is often the first online experience, providing online users with their first internet experience through inexpensive smartphones and mobile data contracts. In India and Indonesia, mobile by far surpasses desktop in terms of audiences and time spent.

    Mobile Facebook access Due to the social network’s wide reach on mobile, it is unsurprising that Facebook consistently ranks as one of the most-downloaded app publishers worldwide. Some of the apps published by Facebook include the eponymous social networking app (and its low-bandwidth version, Facebook Lite), Facebook Messenger (also available as Messenger Lite), Facebook Pages Manager and Facebook Local. In the Google Play Store, Facebook Messenger, Messenger Lite and Facebook frequently rank among the top downloaded apps every month.

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    Facebook Revenue and Usage Statistics (2025)

    • businessofapps.com
    Updated Aug 8, 2017
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    Business of Apps (2017). Facebook Revenue and Usage Statistics (2025) [Dataset]. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/facebook-statistics/
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    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/
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    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...

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    Facebook Names Dataset

    • academictorrents.com
    bittorrent
    Updated Nov 11, 2015
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    Ron Bowes (Skull Security) (2015). Facebook Names Dataset [Dataset]. https://academictorrents.com/details/e54c73099d291605e7579b90838c2cd86a8e9575
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    bittorrent(2991052604)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    Nov 11, 2015
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Ron Bowes (Skull Security)
    License

    https://academictorrents.com/nolicensespecifiedhttps://academictorrents.com/nolicensespecified

    Description

    171 million names (100 million unique) This torrent contains: The URL of every searchable Facebook user s profile The name of every searchable Facebook user, both unique and by count (perfect for post-processing, datamining, etc) Processed lists, including first names with count, last names with count, potential usernames with count, etc The programs I used to generate everything So, there you have it: lots of awesome data from Facebook. Now, I just have to find one more problem with Facebook so I can write "Revenge of the Facebook Snatchers" and complete the trilogy. Any suggestions? >:-) Limitations So far, I have only indexed the searchable users, not their friends. Getting their friends will be significantly more data to process, and I don t have those capabilities right now. I d like to tackle that in the future, though, so if anybody has any bandwidth they d like to donate, all I need is an ssh account and Nmap installed. An additional limitation is that these are on

  6. Global Facebook news consumption 2024, by source

    • statista.com
    • ai-chatbox.pro
    Updated Mar 27, 2025
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    Amy Watson (2025). Global Facebook news consumption 2024, by source [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/topics/751/facebook/
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    Dataset updated
    Mar 27, 2025
    Dataset provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Authors
    Amy Watson
    Description

    According to a global survey conducted in February 2024, almost 40 percent of Facebook users paid attention to news from mainstram news outlets and mainstream journalists on the social network. Additionally, 39 percent reported paying attention to personalities, such as celebrities and influencers. Around one in four Facebook users paid attention to politicians and politican activists on the network.

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    Facebook Dataset

    • cubig.ai
    Updated May 20, 2025
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    CUBIG (2025). Facebook Dataset [Dataset]. https://cubig.ai/store/products/269/facebook-dataset
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    Dataset updated
    May 20, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    CUBIG
    License

    https://cubig.ai/store/terms-of-servicehttps://cubig.ai/store/terms-of-service

    Measurement technique
    Synthetic data generation using AI techniques for model training, Privacy-preserving data transformation via differential privacy
    Description

    1) Data Introduction • The Facebook Data is a social network analysis data that can be used to identify key user groups that can contribute to business growth and develop recommendation strategies, including Facebook users' activity patterns, interactions, likes, friendships, gender, and age.

    2) Data Utilization (1) Facebook Data has characteristics that: • This dataset consists of numerical and categorical variables such as user ID, gender, age, number of friends, number of likes (mobile/web), number of friend requests, number of likes received/sent, and frequency of activities, allowing you to analyze user-specific behavioral characteristics and interaction patterns from multiple angles. (2) Facebook Data can be used to: • Core User Group Targeting and Recommendation Strategies: Use key characteristics such as gender, age, frequency of activity, friends and likes to identify user groups that have a significant impact on business growth and to develop customized content and advertising recommendation strategies. • Analysis of Usage Behavior and Platform Trends: Mobile and Web-based Good By analyzing data such as distribution, age and gender activity patterns, and friend relationship formation, you can visually explore changes in user usage behavior and major trends within the platform.

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    Facebook Deactivation Participants

    • socialmediaarchive.org
    pdf, xlsx
    Updated May 21, 2024
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    (2024). Facebook Deactivation Participants [Dataset]. https://socialmediaarchive.org/record/61?v=pdf
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    xlsx(16172), xlsx(33969), pdf(813810)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    May 21, 2024
    Description

    This table includes platform data for Facebook participants in the Deactivation experiment. Each row of the dataset corresponds to data from a participant’s Facebook user account. Each column contains a value, or set of values, that aggregates log data for this specific participant over a certain period of time.

  9. U.S. social media users on Facebook protecting their data 2022. by...

    • statista.com
    Updated Dec 15, 2023
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    Statista (2023). U.S. social media users on Facebook protecting their data 2022. by generation [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1341249/us-social-media-users-facebook-protecting-privacy-data-by-generation/
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    Dataset updated
    Dec 15, 2023
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    According to a September 2022 survey, 18 percent of social media users in the United States felt that Facebook protected their privacy and data, down from 27 percent in 2021. Overall, Millennials trusted the social media giant the most with their data in 2022, whilst Baby boomers were the least trusting, with just one in ten belonging to this generation feeling that Meta's Facebook protected their privacy and data.

  10. Facebook user data requests from federal agencies & governments H1 2024, by...

    • statista.com
    • ai-chatbox.pro
    • +1more
    Updated Dec 17, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Facebook user data requests from federal agencies & governments H1 2024, by country [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/287845/global-data-requests-from-facebook-by-federal-agencies-and-governments/
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    Dataset updated
    Dec 17, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    In the first half of 2024, Facebook received over 99,000 user data requests from law enforcement agencies of India. The United States ranked second, with over 81,000 user data requests, followed by Brazil, with nearly 26,000 requests. During the measured period, a total of 324,000 requests were submitted to the social network.

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    Data from: Facebook metadata dataset LiLaH-HAG

    • live.european-language-grid.eu
    • repository.uantwerpen.be
    binary format
    Updated Aug 23, 2022
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    (2022). Facebook metadata dataset LiLaH-HAG [Dataset]. https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/corpus/20476
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    binary formatAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Aug 23, 2022
    License

    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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    Description

    The LiLaH-HAG dataset (HAG is short for hate-age-gender) consists of metadata on Facebook comments to Facebook posts of mainstream media in Great Britain, Flanders, Slovenia and Croatia. The metadata available in the dataset are the hatefulness of the comment (0 is acceptable, 1 is hateful), age of the commenter (0-25, 26-30, 36-65, 65-), gender of the commenter (M or F), and the language in which the comment was written (EN, NL, SL, HR).

    The hatefulness of the comment was assigned by multiple well-trained annotators by reading comments in the order of appearance in a discussion thread, while the age and gender variables were estimated from the Facebook profile of a specific user by a single annotator.

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    Twitter Users

    • searchlogistics.com
    Updated Apr 1, 2025
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    (2025). Twitter Users [Dataset]. https://www.searchlogistics.com/learn/statistics/social-media-user-statistics/
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    Dataset updated
    Apr 1, 2025
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    The average Twitter user spends 5.1 hours per month on the platform.

  13. Social Media Datasets

    • brightdata.com
    .json, .csv, .xlsx
    Updated Sep 7, 2022
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    Bright Data (2022). Social Media Datasets [Dataset]. https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/social-media
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    .json, .csv, .xlsxAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Sep 7, 2022
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Bright Datahttps://brightdata.com/
    License

    https://brightdata.com/licensehttps://brightdata.com/license

    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    Gain valuable insights with our comprehensive Social Media Dataset, designed to help businesses, marketers, and analysts track trends, monitor engagement, and optimize strategies. This dataset provides structured and reliable social media data from multiple platforms.

    Dataset Features

    User Profiles: Access public social media profiles, including usernames, bios, follower counts, engagement metrics, and more. Ideal for audience analysis, influencer marketing, and competitive research. Posts & Content: Extract posts, captions, hashtags, media (images/videos), timestamps, and engagement metrics such as likes, shares, and comments. Useful for trend analysis, sentiment tracking, and content strategy optimization. Comments & Interactions: Analyze user interactions, including replies, mentions, and discussions. This data helps brands understand audience sentiment and engagement patterns. Hashtag & Trend Tracking: Monitor trending hashtags, topics, and viral content across platforms to stay ahead of industry trends and consumer interests.

    Customizable Subsets for Specific Needs Our Social Media Dataset is fully customizable, allowing you to filter data based on platform, region, keywords, engagement levels, or specific user profiles. Whether you need a broad dataset for market research or a focused subset for brand monitoring, we tailor the dataset to your needs.

    Popular Use Cases

    Brand Monitoring & Reputation Management: Track brand mentions, customer feedback, and sentiment analysis to manage online reputation effectively. Influencer Marketing & Audience Analysis: Identify key influencers, analyze engagement metrics, and optimize influencer partnerships. Competitive Intelligence: Monitor competitor activity, content performance, and audience engagement to refine marketing strategies. Market Research & Consumer Insights: Analyze social media trends, customer preferences, and emerging topics to inform business decisions. AI & Predictive Analytics: Leverage structured social media data for AI-driven trend forecasting, sentiment analysis, and automated content recommendations.

    Whether you're tracking brand sentiment, analyzing audience engagement, or monitoring industry trends, our Social Media Dataset provides the structured data you need. Get started today and customize your dataset to fit your business objectives.

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    Data from: Facebook users in United Arab Emirates

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    Updated May 15, 2025
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    NapoleonCat (2025). Facebook users in United Arab Emirates [Dataset]. https://napoleoncat.com/stats/facebook-users-in-united_arab_emirates/2025/05
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    Dataset updated
    May 15, 2025
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    NapoleonCat
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Time period covered
    May 2025
    Area covered
    United Arab Emirates
    Description

    There were 13 858 000 Facebook users in United Arab Emirates in May 2025. People aged 25 to 34 were the largest user group (5 900 000). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 25 to 34, where men lead by 4 100 000.

  15. Facebook users in the United States 2019-2028

    • statista.com
    Updated Jul 9, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Facebook users in the United States 2019-2028 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1136345/facebook-users-in-the-united-states
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 9, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    The number of Facebook users in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total **** million users (+**** percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Facebook user base is estimated to reach ***** million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Facebook users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform facebook, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period and count multiple accounts by persons only once.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to *** countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

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    Facebook Usage

    • searchlogistics.com
    Updated Apr 1, 2025
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    (2025). Facebook Usage [Dataset]. https://www.searchlogistics.com/learn/statistics/social-media-user-statistics/
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    Dataset updated
    Apr 1, 2025
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    The average Facebook user spends about 19.6 per month on Facebook every month. This works out to be about 39 minutes per day.

  17. Users data

    • kaggle.com
    Updated Jul 27, 2017
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    karthickveerakumar (2017). Users data [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/karthickveerakumar/users-data/metadata
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 27, 2017
    Dataset provided by
    Kagglehttp://kaggle.com/
    Authors
    karthickveerakumar
    Description

    Context

    There's a story behind every dataset and here's your opportunity to share yours.

    Content

    What's inside is more than just rows and columns. Make it easy for others to get started by describing how you acquired the data and what time period it represents, too.

    Acknowledgements

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    Your data will be in front of the world's largest data science community. What questions do you want to see answered?

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    Facebook Demographics

    • searchlogistics.com
    Updated Apr 1, 2025
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    (2025). Facebook Demographics [Dataset]. https://www.searchlogistics.com/learn/statistics/social-media-user-statistics/
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    Dataset updated
    Apr 1, 2025
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    56.5% of Facebook users worldwide are male. This is in direct contrast to only 43.5% of Facebook being female.

  19. Countries with the most Facebook users 2025

    • statista.com
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    Updated Jun 19, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Countries with the most Facebook users 2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-based-on-number-of-facebook-users/
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 19, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Feb 2025
    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    Which county has the most Facebook users? There are more than 383 million Facebook users in India alone, making it the leading country in terms of Facebook audience size. To put this into context, if India’s Facebook audience were a country, then it would be ranked third in terms of largest population worldwide. Apart from India, there are several other markets with more than 100 million Facebook users each: The United States, Indonesia, and Brazil with 196.9 million, 122.3 million, and 111.65 million Facebook users respectively. Facebook – the most used social media Meta, the company that was previously called Facebook, owns four of the most popular social media platforms worldwide, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram. As of the third quarter of 2021, there were around 3.5 billion cumulative monthly users of the company’s products worldwide. With around 2.9 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the most popular social media worldwide. With an audience of this scale, it is no surprise that the vast majority of Facebook’s revenue is generated through advertising. Facebook usage by device As of July 2021, it was found that 98.5 percent of active users accessed their Facebook account from mobile devices. In fact, almost 81.8 percent of Facebook audiences worldwide access the platform only via mobile phone. Facebook is not only available through mobile browser as the company has published several mobile apps for users to access their products and services. As of the third quarter 2021, the four core Meta products were leading the ranking of most downloaded mobile apps worldwide, with WhatsApp amassing approximately six billion downloads.

  20. Potential Issues with FB Advertising Algorithms...

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    Updated Jun 2, 2023
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    OS BH-Labs (2023). Potential Issues with FB Advertising Algorithms... [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.767331.v1
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    Jun 2, 2023
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    Authors
    OS BH-Labs
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    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.

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Statista (2024). Facebook users in the United States 2019-2028 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-facebook-users/
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Facebook users in the United States 2019-2028

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Dataset updated
Dec 12, 2024
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Statistahttp://statista.com/
Area covered
United States
Description

The number of Facebook users in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 12.6 million users (+5.04 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Facebook user base is estimated to reach 262.8 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Facebook users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform facebook, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period and count multiple accounts by persons only once.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

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