Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Religion leads the way on Facebook


A recently released list of Facebook’s most engaging pages has religion dominating the top ten. The page Jesus Daily has now been in the No 1 spot for a remarkable 18 weeks, with 8,284,774 fans and 3,419,397 interactions.

Two spots behind is The Bible, which has 8,090,313 fans and 1,044,350 posts. Moving up the ranks is Dios Es Bueno (God is Good) with 748,217 talkative followers making it the page to watch. The page Jesus Christ is at No 10 with 513,040 interactions, while Joyce Meyer Ministries is in 15th.

Sport struggles to keep up with religion in terms of popularity with super club FC Barcelona back in 5th position, Real Madrid in 6th and Manchester United in 7th. Interestingly enough, the second ranked most engaging page is Indonesian motivational speak Mario Teguh while pop singer Justin Bieber has fallen back to 8th, Lil Wayne is 12th and Lady Gaga is 18th.

The top television spot is earned by India’s MTV Roadies, which moved up into 11th position with 469,213 people joining the conversation this last week, while two Zynga games round off the top 20 in Texas Hold’em Poker and Empires & Allies.