The dark, ugly side of social media marketing

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According to Maximilian Nierhoff in his Social Media Analytics Blog, the number of Facebook users worldwide went over the one billion mark last year – 1,056,000,000 to be exact. Of these, 76,032,000 were “bad” user accounts. Some 52,800,000 were duplicate accounts, 13,728,000 were user-misclassified, and 9,504,000 were listed as spam accounts.

The United States, Brazil, and India are the world’s top 3 Facebook users. The Philippines ranks 3rd in Asia behind India and Indonesia, and is the second fastest growing Facebook country in the world next to Brazil

Source: www.rappler.com

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