Occupy Wall Street Map: Where Are The Most Popular Facebook Groups?

How big are the Occupy Wall Street protests on Facebook?

The Huffington Post analyzed the state of activism on Facebook in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests. Over 450,000 Facebook users have joined Facebook pages related to the protests so far.

These Facebook pages, found via DailyKos, show the extent to which Occupy Wall Street activity is sprouting up throughout the country on Facebook.

The main Occupy Wall Street page not surprisingly is the largest page with over 125,000 likes. The next largest pages are based in the progressive strongholds of L.A., Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Portland. The smaller size of the activity in Republican regions bolsters the idea that these groups are largely composed of activists on the left.

The map below exhibits the locations and sizes of the pages.

NOTE: This data is current as of October 6.

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Comments

[sidkav]

09:37 AM on 10/10/2011

I can't understand the criticism of this movement. Foolish, uninformed people in this country are responsible for the problems. Why be against our best interests? Now, I only hope the movement expands to expose our inept congress.

[Peace Walker]

11:26 PM on 10/08/2011

This is already quite dated.... wow. Check twitter for thousands of #occupy and check facebook.... changes by the minute!!!

[Peace Walker]

11:14 PM on 10/08/2011

FYI

http://www.occupytogether.org/

[jfbuf]

04:11 PM on 10/08/2011

I can't wait until the whole country is occupied

[Justice Goodyear]

08:22 AM on 10/08/2011

Life has changed when we no longer count people in the street protesting but rather gauge support for a cause by how many people sign up on Facebook.

Come on HuffPo...you can do better.

[shadowpuppet]

03:22 AM on 10/09/2011

In NY the numbers are huge. On Wednesday there had to have been over a hundred thousand people in the streets. And that's a "conservative" estimate. No photos I've seen convey a sense of the magnitude. At least from this article, which is really more of a Facebook ad than anything else, you can see on the US map awareness bubbling up. And that's a good thing to see.

[Craig Boehman]

07:57 AM on 10/08/2011

You forgot to add the second largest Occupy Wall Street page: https://www.facebook.com/Gilded.Age

[snakpak]

04:45 AM on 10/08/2011

Will these suburban white kids still occupy the streets when it starts getting cold? maybe they can warm up with a cup of coffee from corporations like startbucks and McDonalds, and then tweet about it on their Mac's, which Apples inflated stock is another reason why we are in such a mess.

[shadowpuppet]

03:26 AM on 10/09/2011

We're in a mess because of Apple? That's a new one! From comments such as these, one can see the message America is being fed about the protests. Utter misinformation.

[snakpak]

10:22 AM on 10/09/2011

Inflated stock prices is a new one?

[sheoples]

05:27 PM on 10/07/2011

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[jfbuf]

04:12 PM on 10/08/2011

nice job

[sheoples]

05:22 PM on 10/07/2011

msm = satanic verses

[LeeFisher]

04:37 PM on 10/07/2011

All of these numbers have grown larger than what is listed in this blog.

[WonderVenus]

02:02 AM on 10/08/2011

By thousands and thousands!

[cornel]

03:46 PM on 10/07/2011

This should be on the first page headlines ! Why did HP buried it under the TECH rubric !

[sheoples]

05:21 PM on 10/07/2011

so people can't find it?

[shadowpuppet]

03:27 AM on 10/09/2011

So people can find it only if they really really really look.

[frank day]

09:59 AM on 10/07/2011

This movement is spreading like wildfire.

[Justice Goodyear]

08:23 AM on 10/08/2011

Serious?

[Donald Persons]

09:38 AM on 10/07/2011

Defining this movement is another step. I hope they pursue jubilee: declaration of invalidity of all debts, land redistribution, etc.

[mynamesyow]

02:08 PM on 10/07/2011

What an intelligent reply!

[Rich Cash]

08:01 PM on 10/07/2011

Hmmm, that's been done before. Marx, and Engels came up with the idea in the late 1800's. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, and Deng Shau Peng tried to implement it. That didn't work so well, did it? "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it."

[Donald Persons]

11:32 PM on 10/08/2011

It's in the Old Testament. Something called biblical justice: an area where Jews, Muslims and Christians have a great deal of convergence.

[pkymarfo]

08:06 AM on 10/07/2011

"Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD."
“The LORD abhors dishonest scales”

[frank day]

09:59 AM on 10/07/2011

A better condemnation of greedy Banksters was never written.

[mynamesyow]

02:10 PM on 10/07/2011

Rev 22: 18-19 : For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.

[pkymarfo]

02:57 PM on 10/07/2011

Let Him "the spirit of prophecy" be true and every man a liar.

[pkymarfo]

08:03 AM on 10/07/2011

New York is where it started. By no means is there alone that it will end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHO64mY5Cb0