Facebrands: Over 4.4M Romanians are using Facebook

According to Facebrands.ro and  Facebrands PRO, over 4.4M Romanians (4,406,580) are using Facebook and 91% of them declared the residence town on their profiles.

The number of Facebook users increased by 83% compared to the same period of 2011, when there were 2,40M users, and by  5.8% compared to December 2011.

The most Facebook users in Romania are in Bucharest (1,05M, 26,13%), than in Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and  Iasi.

An analysis made by  Facebrands shows that, geographically, the regions where Facebook is most present are Muntenia (including Bucharest) – 38.64%, Transylvania – 19.18% and Moldavia – 14.24%, with the rest of the regions as it follows: Banat, Oltenia, Dobrogea, Crisana, Bucovina and Maramures.

Facebook users were exposed, during the last 4 months, to over 11,000 ads and there were created over 6,000 tabs on the 15,600 pages monitored by Facebook Pro in its Intelligence module.

Facebrands.ro is a monitoring services for Romanian pages created on Facebook and it was launch at the beginning of 2011 by Standout and ByteFlux.

Standout is a blog and social media communication agency launched in 2007. It runs campaigns on the most visited blogs and social networks in Romania and coordinates a network of over 200 Romanian blogs selected on quantitative and qualitative criteria. The agency implemented in the last few years campaigns for brands such as Orange, Danone, Rompetrol, Sony, Gealan, BCR, Coca-Cola, Toshiba, Dove, Rexona, HP, Beck’s, UPC, Santal, Jacobs, KLM, Titan, Praktiker, Dacia, Beko, Signal, Rama and others.

Byte Flux is a web and software development agency with over 8 years of experience. It developed products such as FaceBrands.ro and Redutti.ro, but also complex apps for Facebook and iPhone/iPad apps (Objective-C).