How Many of Your Facebook Friends are Using Mobile? And What Phone Model?

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Written on Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Wow! A third of my Facebook friends uses an iPhone for mobile access... yes, that's right... 33%! If you'd asked me 5 mins ago I'd have said maybe about 10% max -- and that would be pushing it...  ...Well, it wasn't!

115 out of my 347 friends currently  use the iPhone app (33.1%),  26 the Blackberry app (7.5%), 8 the Android app (2.3%) and no Palm users (unsurprisingly!).

Thanks to Murat's post about Mobile Handset Popularity, I found out how to check for myself what percentage of my friends are using a Facebook mobile app. Here's more from the article:
All you have to do is go to the official Facebook application page for your handset and click on the ‘Info’ tab, you’ll be presented with a total number of friends, plus who has it installed.
I checked my mates and out of 168 friends:
106 have the iPhone app installed
54 have the Blackberry app installed
12 have the Android app installed
0 have the WebOS for Palm installed
There is no app for Nokia listed although one exists, in any case they would surely be fighting for scraps.
If you’re wondering why the amount of friends with the Facebook app installed is greater than my total friends, it’s because many people change phones and even borrow their phone to friends to use the Facebook, meaning that they are listed under multiple handsets. So remember these figures aren’t 100% accurate but a good guide no less.

Try it yourself and post your findings in the comments

Facebook iPhone page (click here)

 

Facebook Blackberry page (click here)

 

Facebook Android page (click here)

 

Facebook Palm page (click here)


Pretty interesting, I hope you'll all agree!

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1 Comment

  1. Nick | December 6, 2010 10:32 PM

    It's amazing how mobile devices have really taken off in the past few years. Many are predicting that 2011 is going to be the big year for mobile devices.

    We just did a blog post this morning with a video about mobile phone usage and things we can expect in 2011, check it out at http://blog.moscreative.com/2010/12/06/mobile-phone-usage-rapidly-on-the-rise/

     

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