Facebook hits 8.4 ml Romanian users of whom 1.9 ml Bucharesters

The number of Facebook accounts held by Romanian users reached 8.4 million, of which 1.9 million in Bucharest, reveals data processed by the portal Facebrands.ro, the service that monitors the Romanian pages created on the social network. 

Of the total number of users, 90.61 percent (7.61 million people) have stated their city of residence, and Bucharesters account for the highest chunk of account owners - 24.97 percent of the total, or 1.90 million, followed by Timisoara (300,000 persons, 3.94 percent), Cluj-Napoca (240,040 persons, 3.15 percent) and Iasi (220,000 persons, 2.89 percent). 

At the opposite end, with the fewest number of users are the towns of Gherla and Husi (11,000 people each, 0.14 percent of the total) and Targu Secuiesc (10,500 persons, 0.14 percent), respectively. 

According to Facebrands statistics, people in the 25 to 34 age group (28.5 percent) are at the top by the frequency of Facebook accessing. Next are the persons aged between 18 and 24 (22.6 percent), followed by the 35 - 44 age bracket (20.5 percent) and users aged between 45 and 54 (10.8 percent). 

Men account for 58.82 percent of the total Facebook accounts. By the users' civil status, married people hold the lead (63.12 percent), followed by single persons with 25.25 percent of the total and persons in a relationship (10.22 percent). 

In the ranking of the most visited Facebook pages of Romanian celebrities, Inna ranks first with 12.07 million fans, followed by the band Akcent (3.64 million fans) and Alexandra Stan (3.46 million fans). 

Facebrands.ro is the site that monitors the Facebook pages created by people and institutions (companies, NGOs, etc.) and shows the rise in the number of the pages' fans by days and weeks, along with other pages in the same category.AGERPRES