Thursday, July 24, 2008

Compare The Popularity of Any Topic on Facebook with Lexicon

Facebook Lexicon is like Google Trends - it lets you compare how frequently different words and phrases are written on Facebook over time. The popularity graphs are drawn using content posted on Facebook Walls, events and profiles.

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Facebook Lexicon graphs are plotted relatively so you can easily figure out if topic X is more interesting than Y or Z among Facebook members. You may enter up to five terms, where each term can be a word or two-word phrase consisting of letters and numbers.

For instance, the graph below suggests that more people talk about Mumbai on Facebook than Delhi or Chennai. This is also a good indicator of Facebook’s relative popularity in different cities of the world.

facebook google trends

The Facebook charts are done in AJAX/Flash so you can’t embed them in websites other than taking a screen capture as I have done for this story.

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