{"id":54338,"date":"2014-03-14T11:14:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T09:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=54338"},"modified":"2014-03-14T11:14:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T09:14:36","slug":"the-selfiest-city-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/54338\/the-selfiest-city-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The “selfiest” city in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new list compiled by TIME reveals which South African city takes the most selfies – and how we compare with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

The list was compiled by building a database of over 400,000 Instagram photos tagged as “selfie”, including a geographic location.<\/p>\n

Time ranked 459 cities and, of the sample, 28% of the geolocated selfies came from the United States.<\/p>\n

According to TIME’s findings, Johannesburg is the most selfie-happy city in South Africa, with 185 selfies captured by 151 users over the given 24 hour period, equating to seven selfie-takers per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n

Cape Town was ranked second in SA, with 268 selfies by 220 users, or 6 selfie-takers per 100,000 people, followed by Pretoria (4\/100k), Port Elizabeth (3\/100k) and Durban (2\/100k).<\/p>\n

Selfiest cities in SA<\/h3>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
SA<\/strong><\/td>\n#<\/strong><\/td>\nUsers<\/strong><\/td>\nSelfies per 100,000 people
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n313<\/td>\nJohannesburg<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n331<\/td>\nCape Town<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n379<\/td>\nPretoria<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n400<\/td>\nPort Elizabeth<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n414<\/td>\nDurban<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Overall, South African cities feature far down the list, with Johannesburg at 313th, globally; with Cape Town at 331st; Pretoria, 379th; Port Elizabeth, 400th; and Durban, 414th.<\/p>\n

Ikeja, Nigeria, is the “selfiest” city in Africa, ranked 224th overall, just above Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

The top-ranked city in the world is Makati and Pasig in the Philippines, which has 285 selfies for every 100,000 people.<\/p>\n

Manhattan (202\/100k) and Miami (155\/100k) in the USA ranked second and third, while Manchester, ranked seventh with 114 selfies per 100,000 people, tops the list for Europe.<\/p>\n

Top selfie cities in the world<\/h3>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/strong><\/td>\nCity<\/strong><\/td>\nCountry<\/strong><\/td>\nSelfies per 100,000 people
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nMakati City and Pasig<\/td>\nPhilippines<\/td>\n258<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nManhattan<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\n202<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nMiami<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\n155<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nAnaheim and Santa Ana<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\n147<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nPetaling Jaya<\/td>\nMalaysia<\/td>\n141<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nTel Aviv<\/td>\nIsrael<\/td>\n139<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nManchester<\/td>\nEngland<\/td>\n114<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nMilan<\/td>\nItaly<\/td>\n108<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nCebu City<\/td>\nPhilippines<\/td>\n99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nGeorge Town<\/td>\nMalaysia<\/td>\n95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

“While the metric of ‘people who take selfies per capita’ is far from a perfect measure, it was far and away the most comprehensive means of comparing the 459 world cities that turned up at least 25 individual users in the database,” TIME said.<\/p>\n

“Of course, this measure bakes in more variables than just a penchant for selfies, such as smart phone adoption rates and median income. As such, this list tends to favor regions just outside major urban areas.”<\/p>\n

More on South Africa’s cities<\/h3>\n

South Africa\u2019s most violent city<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joburg: Africa\u2019s best city for youth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joburg actually is a world class African city<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Which is Africa\u2019s best city?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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