Facebook Data Team
People use status updates to share what’s on their minds, to tell others what they’re doing, and to gather feedback from friends. The different ways people use status updates form some interesting patterns. In...
23 December 2010 at 13:37 · · Comment
Facebook Data Team
When Facebook users in the United States logged into Facebook on Election Day this year, they were greeted by a message alerting them of voting activity on Facebook. Users could click a button to announce to their friends that they had already voted and see which of their friends had done the same...
04 November 2010 at 18:18 · · Comment
Facebook Data Team

Facebook Data Team Check out our post on The Facebook Blog: A More Global View of Gross National Happiness!

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06 May 2010 at 11:39 · · Comment
Facebook Data Team

Facebook Data Team Check out our f8 LIVE tab for streaming video and live chat of keynotes from Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook speakers, breakout sessions and behind-the-scenes discussions at our conference for developers and entrepreneurs:

f8 will take place on April 21, 2010, in San Francisco. Like this Page for the latest updates on the event.
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21 April 2010 at 06:33 · · Comment
Facebook Data Team
On October 5, 2009, Data Scientists at Facebook began studying the happiness of English speakers in the United States through the Gross National Happiness Index (GNH)...
23 March 2010 at 22:31 · · Comment
Facebook Data Team
It’s Valentine’s Day, and for Data Scientists and others alike, it’s the perfect time to ask the question: Does having that someone special really make us happy? We ...
14 February 2010 at 15:48 · · Comment
Facebook Data Team
Facebook has undergone amazing growth in the last year. At the beginning of 2009, we were already seeing almost a hundred million words a day posted in status updates — well over a thousand per second during peak times. ...
21 December 2009 at 12:21 · · Comment
Facebook Data Team

Facebook Data Team Our look at measuring subpopulations on Facebook.

In order to make Facebook as open and connected as possible for everyone, one of our goals is to understand how different populations of users join and use the service...
16 December 2009 at 20:04 · · Comment