TIME Magazine has identified Makati City as the World's Selfiest Capital based on a recent study.
“An examination of hundreds of thousands of selfies—the low-fi, self-shot photographs that are intensely popular among younger social media users—suggests that the city, part of metropolitan Manila and home to 500,000 people, produces more selfies per capita than any other city in the world.”, says Chris Wilson – Interactive Graphics Editor of TIME.
Makati is not the only Philippine city that made it to the top 10. Coming in at number 9 is Cebu City with 99 selfie-takers per 100,000 people.
Top 10 selfiest citites in the world:
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Makati City and Pasig, Philippines
258 selfie-takers per 100,000 people -
Manhattan, N.Y.
202 selfie-takers per 100,000 people -
Miami, Fla.
155 selfie-takers per 100,000 people -
Anaheim and Santa Ana, Calif.
147 selfie-takers per 100,000 people -
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
141 selfie-takers per 100,000 people -
Tel Aviv, Israel
139 selfie-takers per 100,000 people -
Manchester, England
114 selfie-takers per 100,000 people -
Milan, Italy
108 selfie-takers per 100,000 people -
Cebu City, Philippines
99 selfie-takers per 100,000 people -
George Town, Malaysia
95 selfie-takers per 100,000 people
The study was conducted in two sets of five days: from January 28 – February 2, 2014 and March 3 – 7, 2014. During those times, over 400,000 Instagram photos tagged as “selfie” that included geographic coordinates were collected.
“Photos were then matched to cities using a simple “nearest neighbor” algorithm that found the nearest city with at least 250,000 residents. This means that, even within the fairly tight radius of 5 miles from the center of a city, some photos are counted which were not physically taken in that city,” adds Wilson.
