
Pepsi and Coca-Cola are two of the largest global brands, but where do their Facebook fans come from? Socialbakers examined the fan bases of the two soda giants.

Pepsi and Coca-Cola are two of the largest global brands, but where do their Facebook fans come from? Socialbakers examined the fan bases of the two soda giants.

In January 2010, Facebook had just 337 million users — a figure that has ballooned to roughly 1 billion this year. While Facebook is still most popular in the U.S., the social network has grown in leaps in bounds in countries such as Brazil and India over the past three years. An infographic from Socialbakers illustrates how the demographics of Facebook have changed since 2010.

As Facebook shoots past 1 billion users, countries all over the world are becoming more plugged in to the social network. People in Brazil, Russia, Japan, South Korea, and India love Facebook, as there has been 41 percent growth in those countries this year, according to a new infographic from BestFreeOnline.

If you were asked to guess which country had the highest percentage of users of Opera mobile Web browser Opera Mini users accessing Facebook in October, would you have come up with Macau?

Facebook officially reached 1 billion monthly active users Sept. 14 at 12:45 p.m. PT, Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a post on the social network’s Newsroom, as well as in an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, and in a cover story for Bloomberg Businessweek.

Keeping with the theme of the Olympic Games, Kenshoo Social wanted to see which countries offered the most value and effectiveness to Facebook advertisers in areas such as average cost per click and average frequency of delivery for ads. While the U.S. may have brought home the most gold in London, the same was not true in Kenshoo Social’s competition.

Facebook’s app center applications discovery portal is now available in seven more countries: Brazil, France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey.

When one of your Facebook friends posts a photo album of their trip to Maui, they’re not just showing off — they might also be acting as a travel agent. Forbes reports that Facebook is becoming a popular travel motivator, because when people see photos and posts from their friends’ vacations, it inspires them to book a flight there, too.

Brazil’s got game on Facebook. Among Caribbean and Latin American countries active on the social network, the home of the world-famous Carnivale boasts close to 50 million users (the biggest swarm within the region) and annual growth of 144 percent, making it the country in these regions with the fastest growth.

As part of the “Brazil: A Magical Journey” campaign that launched Wednesday in select Macy’s stores and on its Facebook page, the department store is inviting shoppers and fans to share what it calls “augmented experiences,” or virtual excursions surrounding famous Brazilian fetes and pastimes, by uploading application-based photos to their Facebook pages.