The number of Facebook social network users in Romania amounted to nearly 3.85 million at mid-Nov., according to data published by facebrands.ro portal, a monitoring service of the Romanian pages created on the social network.At present, coverage per total population is about 18.00 percent and among the Internet users, Facebook is accessed by nearly 53 percent of the total.
Out of the 3,847,600 Romanian users of Facebook, about a third (32.6 percent) are 18-24 years old, and 30.9 percent are aged between 25 and 34 years. Ranked next are users aged between 13 and 17 years old (16.4 percent) and those with ages between 35-44 (13,5 percent)
Most Facebook users are from Bucharest (1.115 million, 31.71 percent), followed by Cluj Napoca (167,980, 4.78 percent), Timisoara (167,700, 4.77 percent) and Iasi (157,400, 4.48 percent).
In the ranking of the most popular Romanian brands, in Nov., first came singer Inna, with nearly 3.835 million fans, followed at a large distance by the Akcent band (roughly 823,211 fans) and singer Edward Maya – with over 588,882 fans.
Immediately below the podium, with 535,395 fans, are Creative Monkeyz, the creators of the famous Robotzi series.
Facebrands.ro currently monitors over 14,000 pages created on Facebook by individuals and institutions (companies, NGOs, etc.), showing the increase in the number of their fans by days and weeks, along with other pages in the same category.
Facebrands.ro is the monitoring service for the Romanian pages created on the Facebook social network, launched in early 2010 by Standout and Byte Flux.
According to figures published by facebrands.ro, there were about 520,000 Facebook users in Romania on Jan. 1, 2010.
