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- London Calling
  by Natalie Ponte on Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 5:54pm
  Is there a little bit of competition between Toronto and London? Back in May, Nico wrote about the apparent Canadian love for Facebook (and how much we loved them back). A few weeks later, London picked up in a big way, and surpassed Toronto to become the largest network on the site.
  Over 1 million Londoners (the blue line) had joined the London network by the end of August. We’re so pleased to note that the British are now enjoying Miss Teen South Carolina’s philosophical meanderings as much as we did - she’s currently one of the most popular... Posted Items in the London network.
  
  Whether it's international competition or mere coincidence, we're overjoyed. We're so excited, in fact, that we're going to be opening an office in London as thanks to our dedicated users. We also want to support the growing demand for advertising on the site by UK advertisers.
  
  The UK is also growing on a national scale; in terms of unique users, it's currently the third biggest country on Facebook (coming in just behind Canada) and it is the fastest growing international market we have. The UK also contributed over 5.5 billion page views in the month of August, which means everyone out there saw an average of 1,100 Facebook pages. That means you'll probably look at 35 Facebook pages today, and this blog post is already 1/35 of your daily dose. Hopefully you'll enjoy the other 34 pages as much as this one.
  We saw approximately 5 million UK users (blue) visit us last month, and it's catching up to Canada (yellow). Keep an eye out for Australia (pink), the dark horse contender - we're picking up down under, too.
  Natalie Minor, soon to be in the London office, is hoping you appreciate how much the growth charts resemble the Tube map.
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