Report: There Are 63.52 Million Facebook Users In China, Despite Ban
Laws are meant to be broken, including, apparently, the one banning Facebook in China, as research firm GlobalWebIndex reported that Facebook users in the country have skyrocketed from 7.9 million in July 2009 to 63.52 million as of the second quarter of 2012.
Laws are meant to be broken, including, apparently, the one banning Facebook in China, as research firm GlobalWebIndex reported that Facebook users in the country have skyrocketed from 7.9 million in July 2009 to 63.52 million as of the second quarter of 2012.
According to GlobalWebIndex, Twitter, which is also banned in China, has seen its users grow from 11.8 million to 35 million during the same time period.
GlobalWebIndex said it conducted seven waves of research in China, via self-completion surveys in Mandarin, asking questions including:
- On which of the following services have you created an account?
- On which of the following services have you used or contributed last month?
The research firm offered its explanation of how Internet users in China are skirting the ban on Facebook and Twitter:
We routinely come across the argument that these sites are blocked in China, and, therefore, our figures cannot possibly be correct.
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