Cebu Daily News ‘Siloys’ do a ‘selfie’ during its recent anniversary shoot. Cebu City recorded 1,064 selfies uploaded in Instagram by 787 users. (CDN PHOTO/TONEE DESPOJO)
Three cities in the Philippines made it to the list of cities with the most number of “selfie-takers” in the world, a study published by an international news magazine said yesterday.
Makati City and Pasig City were adjudged the “Selfie Capitals of the World” while Cebu City was ranked 9th, TIME Magazine reported yesterday.
“Makati City, known as the financial center of the Philippines, can now boast another distinction: It is the Selfie Capital of the World,” TIME editor Chris Wilson said in a post on the magazine’s website Tuesday.
Wilson added, “The city, part of metropolitan Manila and home to 500,000 people, produces more selfies per capita than any other city in the world.”
Cebu City, which followed Milan in Italy in the ranking, recorded 1,064 selfies uploaded in the photo-sharing site Instagram by 787 users.
TIME made a database of over 400,000 Instagram pictures taken over the course of a 10-day period. The pictures that were included in the study were tagged as “selfie” and included the geographic coordinates of each of the images.
The photos were downloaded from photo sharing application Instagram from Jan. 28 to Feb. 2 and March 3-7, 2014.
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TOP 10 “SELFIEST’
Makati City and Pasig City (Philippines) – 258 selfie-takers
Manhattan, New York (US) – 202
Miami, Florida (US) – 155
Anaheim and Santa Ana, California (US) – 147
Petaling Jaya (Malaysia) – 141
Tel Aviv (Israel) – 139
Manchester (England) – 114
Milan (Italy) – 108
Cebu City (Philippines) – 99
George Town (Malaysia) – 95
*Figure per 100,000 people
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