Having turned an emotional ten years old this week, Facebook is now offering a Look Back service – an embeddable video timeline highlighting your activity on the social network.
Here, lolsters Tripp and Tyler present their version of an honest Look Back movie.
UPDATE: Contains Breaking Bad spoiler.
Facebook’s growth will eventually come to a quick end, much like an infectious disease that spreads rapidly and suddenly dies, say Princeton researchers who are using diseases to model the life cycles of social media.
The study has not been peer-reviewed. Researchers predicted that Facebook would see a rapid decline, causing the site to lose 80% of its peak user base between 2015 and 2017.
Facebook Is About to Lose 80% of Its Users, Study Says (Sam Frizell, Time)
From EightTwenty.ie, the people who compiled the handy Twitter Irish usage infographic.
They write:
What is surprising is the gap between the percentage of users in Dublin and outside of Dublin. The difference stands at 25% between the capital and second placed Limerick. In our Twitter study Limerick was 21st for the volume of tweets originating from the county, which either indicates there’s a great deal of inactive Twitter users in Limerick or they prefer Facebook to carry out their social networking activities.
Louth and Waterford appear near the top of this and the Twitter study. This would suggest the two counties are highly savvy when it comes to social media given that a high percentage of the local population are active on Facebook and send a high volume of tweets in comparison to other counties. In the same Twitter study we also noted the high volume of tweets, per thousand of the population, coming from Meath but the county ranks 20th out of the 26 counties with just 26% of the local population on Facebook.
In 14 of the counties we found just 1 in 3 people or less use Facebook, this is a significant difference to the number of Dublin users and from the national average in other studies. Making up the bottom two counties are Leitrim and Roscommon with just 19% of the local population using Facebook.
Not just for the childers.
Via Fuzion PR
Facebook paid no corporation tax in Britain last year, according to its latest accounts, despite taking an estimated £223m share of the digital advertising market.
The social network’s tax bill fell from £238,000 in 2011 to zero, while its reported UK income rose by 70%.
….In common with fellow American technology leaders Google and Apple, Facebook funnels the vast majority of its income from advertisers targeting its 33 million British users through Ireland.
France is pushing for Europe to adopt a new corporation tax regime which would see multinationals such as Google and Facebook regulated and taxed in the countries where customers use their websites.
Fleur Pellerin, the French digital economy minister, is expected to push for the reforms at a summit of European leaders scheduled for the end of October.
They’re on to us, aren’t they?
Poster: IDA
The faces of Facebook.
All 1.27+ billion of them.
On a zoomable, clickable website here.
That’s Karl in the corner.
Thanks Ciaran Le Cool
Bewildered student writes:
“Just spotted this on the side of my Facebook feed. Hmmm… Really? Miriam? When you click on the link, it goes to something about raspberries.”
