 Makati City is the “selfiest” city in the world according to TIME Magazine. By examining hundreds of thousands of selfies—self-portrait photographs typically taken with a camera phone now very popular among young social media users, TIME was able to identify 100 different cities in the world where the selfie phenomenon is huge. TIME’s database of over 400,000 Instagram photos that included geographic coordinates revealed that of 459 cities, Makati City, the financial capital of the Philippines, claims the distinction of being the Selfie Capital of the World. Home to about 500,000 people, Makati City produces more selfie per capita than any other city in the planet, said Chris Wilson, interactive graphics editor at TIME. Wilson said Makati has 258 selfie-takers per 100,000 people. TIME’s analysis, however, also took into account selfies that were also taken from the neighboring Pasig City. Cebu City also made it high on the list of selfiest places on earth at No. 9 with an average of 99 selfie-takers for every 100,000 people. Based on TIME’s report, here are the top 10 selfiest cities in the world:
The report was conducted in two sets: from January 28 to February 2, 2014 and March 3 to 7, 2014. Results tagged as “selfie” yielded a total of 402,197 Instagram photos within a 24-hour period. MB
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