If you want to track the most popular fan pages on Facebook, AllFacebook pushed out a new Facebook Pages Tracker last night that keeps stats on 611,213 fan pages on the social network. Only about 57,000 of those pages have more than 1,000 fans. The top five fan pages are:
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1. Barack Obama (4,544,050 fans)
2. Coca-Cola 2,286,085 (fans)
3. Homer J Simpson (2,230,644 (fans)
4. Nutella (2,109,429 fans)
5. Pizza (2,050,050 fans)
Wow, Nutella has more fans than pizza. Who knew?
The tracker also shows the fastest-growing fan pages. A fan page dedicated to masturbation grew 11,900 percent in the last week and is the No. 8 fastest-growing page (see first chart below). Now we know why social networks are overtaking porn sites in popularity. (I didn’t link to it here, but that fan page on Facebook is NSFW).
The least popular fan pages (in terms of daily growth) are included as well. On top of that sad list is Buddy’s Shamrock Tavern in New Jersey.
Looking at the stats also shows how big events can add to your fanbase. The New York Times, for instance, had a big jump of 135,000 fans from the ad they ran on Facebook’s homepage during the Presidential Inauguration. (See second chart below).
AllFacebook also now tracks more than 50,000 applications on Facebook (see previous coverage).
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banhammer!
this article was featured in an excellent goof on a local news station… (it’s about 1/3rd the way in), the corespondent is in her car showing how you can hear news feeds over the phone on live tv
http://www.ksee...deo=YHI&t=a
masturbation page pulled down by facebook?? But thumbnail pic of the page in the screenshot above is too good..
At least fb should have converted that “page” into “groups”
dude. It’s not a race. You know, I wouldn’t mind so much about people doing this if they would simply say something afterwards that referred to the article. That would let me know that they actually read it.
Anyway, interesting list though it seems so Random.
I’m still trying to figure out fan pages. It seems that most people join them just to have it listed on their page but never go back to it. Does that really constitute being a fan? I don’t know.
I wonder how the masturbation rate rises with the cycles of the moon?
Nutella is beating out ALL pizza??
I had no idea that Facebook was so big in Italy.
It’s big everywhere now! It’s 2009, don’t forget it.
It is not important only in Italy – It’s the whole world. And now with Facebook, it could be even more fans…
Good for Nutella.
What a surprise, facebook users are wankers, who could have guessed.
They are in fact open wankers since they let their friends know about it too. lol
It’s all those stupid dating ads that Facebook keeps letting get advertised.
Yeah, that’s not a surprise at all.
Maybe it’s a Wankbook then? Or Jerkbook? 
Revealing.
ok have to admit. That “wanker” reference had me rolling!
CoolestJobsOnline
http://tinyurl.com/7uj5ay
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Muaahhahaaa , cool.Masturbation , listed under :
sports / athletics.
It seems, according to the statistics , many people spend their time with sports
That just proves that some people love sports and have too much time on their hands
Yes, there was a pun and yes it was intended.
We now return you to…well whatever it was you were doing before you read this!
Every time you touch yourself, God kills a kitten.
Then kittens should be extinct by now
Facebook fans = nature haters?
facebook has always attracted very young crowd. its funny it looked like its was for sports…
Hitwise needs to get their facts straight, and publish what sites are in its adult index. Yes, google searches on adult terms are going down because people now go straight to the adult video sites (UGC) that dominate alexa’s top 100.
bit naughty in there, i think it’s aimed at men so to speak…
Re nutella vs pizza: it does not necessarily mean the popularity or dominance of one over the other – this data says nothing really, some other matrix need to be applied for it to be valid for business.
And to think I just posted a “journal published” study on how this can lead to prostate cancer for those in their 20s and 30s if it goes beyond normal frequency. Again, it was a published file from the British Journal of Urology too.
http://ducknetw...ion-in-20s.html
Bogus info. Masturbation does not cause prostate cancer, blindness or hairy palms. However, there is a connection between masturbation [both sexes] lack of proper hygiene, frequent touching of genitals, facial acne and herpes –at any age.
What? No spanking?
accurate graph
Haha! Good spot.
allfacebook {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/FlENiv4T9Y_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”allfacebook ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/9kIBxmzIEZ”}}}
Can Techcrunch please report on an up and coming startup instead of this junk? There are sooooooo many startups out there.. they dun even have to be good ones – you can rip on sucky ones. Come’n man, damn.
Looks like Facebook (or someone) removed the page. I was wondering how it wasn’t flagged for violating their code of conduct.
wankers , please join Angel Dark ( p*rn actress ) fan club if you like her .
Facebook remove the pages that violating the rules but its viral his growth no doubt it.
It’s not just ‘viral’ it’s sexually transmittable too.
Are these ‘fan pages’ being started by the companies itself or someone else?
I am now a fan of Buddy’s Shamrock Tavern just because of this article
http://tr.im/d4ma
Facebook and masturbation kind of go “hand in hand” no? Snap, I got that pun in first….yes!
hey, is facebook stroking Tech Crunch under the table these days? I mean, cum on guys. The Myspace tell all post about Tom being involved in a Asian porn circle (jerks) and now this. Write about news you nerds not the naughty things found on the internet. Who really needed to know that beating it and computers went hand in hand?
Anyone can be immature for attention.
naughty things are 75% of searches on the net aren’t they ? – so the hand shanies are bound to – er come up at some point….starting to sound like a carry on film now … ah, it’s gone anyhow.
I created a much nicer communial event – but so far even I’m not sure I’m going to it…
http://www.face...eid=62227536042
I’ve always been a big fan of masturbation.
Nick’s done a killer job on his stats pages lately. Nice work.
Update: Masturbation fan page “grows” by 25,700% after this post appears on TechCrunch.
New members claim they’re in it for the “articles”.
now that was funny, andrew!