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The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images
- Siecje 13y agoI found my profile account number and it works for the graph link but I am not that number on the site
- whackedspinach 13y agoThe number on this site refers to the profile picture. Some people have multiple profile pictures over time, and some have deleted their account, etc. Example: Zuck is 1 on this page but his FBID is 4.
- Siecje 13y agoSo #1 is Mark's picture from back then and he and everyone else would be in the page multiple times.
- lifeformed 13y agoI'm not sure what I'm looking at here... all I see is a giant zoomable grid of chromatic noise. Is it supposed to be showing peoples pictures or something?
- swat535 13y agosame here i was expecting to see actual profile images..
- martin_ 13y agoYou do, if you zoom in.
- Killswitch 13y agoUse your scroll wheel to zoom in (like Google Maps) or click in an area and it'll zoom in.
- elwell 13y agoI thought that at first, but then the faces started loading finally. You do have to be zoomed in for that to occur.
- geekrax 13y agoA facebook profile picture of smallest dimension (50px X 50px) will have minimum size of 3 kb.. So, if this site will show real profile pics all together, it'll have to load almost 3.5 TB of data for 1.2 billion pictures.. A connection with 100Kb/s downloading speed will take around 430 days, and a connection with 1MB/s will take around 42 days.. I don't think anyone would be interested to spend more than 2 minutes on this page.
- spyder 13y agoGoogle Maps
- MildlySerious 13y agoAnd on day 41 the browser crashes. Oh well.
- dsl 13y agoI had to unblock Facebook Connect in Ghostery and AdBlock before it worked.
- djloche 13y agoThe real question is - does this have the image from the profile I requested that they delete over 1.5 years ago?
- phwd 13y agoIf you have the id or username, then you can check for yourself with a simple HTTP GET to https://graph.facebook.com/[Number/username] https://graph.facebook.com/[Number/username]. Seeing that this app uses the Graph API to request accounts, I highly doubt it will be able to see any residual/soft delete data Facebook might hold for you.
- timedoctor 13y agoThe app doesn't work. When you scroll up and down through the images it stops showing you new faces. The faces are not all there, it's a trick, just has a few hundred facebook profiles in there, does not have all 1.2 billion.
- 31reasons 13y agoIts not "Visualizing". Its called fetching random images.
- photorized 13y agoThat was my reaction, too. I was expecting something more than a random pixel map.
- joshlegs 13y agoalso, it's slow as shit when you drill down to a subselection of 'faces'
- Skywing 13y agoWorking for me. Shows pictures, names and profile number. If you scroll to the top left you can browse all of the first users of Facebook. Pretty neat.
- Tichy 13y agoCan't load the page. But I wonder, is it possible to grab all Facebook profile pictures (or at least the public ones), or were they given special access for research purposes?
- Sprint 13y agoYour browser is doing the downloading. The URLs are available from the API (I changed random characters): $ curl -I https://graph.facebook.com/100000624321700/picture HTTP/1.1 302 Found (...) Location: https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/573867_100000621711234_930571234_q.jpg Then it is just a matter of incrementing the number. This might be a fun research project.
- elwell 13y agowell don't forget that they are also using the api to get the full_name of users
- Tichy 13y agoNo rate limits?
- Andrenid 13y agoAfter zooming in to 2 different areas and dragging it around for a bit, I now don't get images and I just get a popup asking me to log in to Facebook whenever I try zoom in anywhere.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoDefinitely rate limits. They should probably be proxying the requests and caching the images.
- SurfScore 13y agoSo apparently the app works because you can access someone's facebook page with the URL www.facebook.com/"#". With the number being the numbered profile they are. Its curious, however, that Zuck is actually number 4 (www.facebook.com/4), numbers 1-3 are missing. I wonder why?
- shacharz 13y agoI see Zuck as #1, Moskowitz as #3 and so on...
- frik 13y agoClick on the picture, it links to "facebook.com/4" (=zuckerberg), etc. There are several gaps in between the first 50 ID numbers. Probably some early test/fake accounts as well as people who deleted/deactivated their account. Eduardo Saverin (co-founder) has id 41 and Joe Green has 42.
- forinti 13y agoThere's even a https://www.facebook.com/NaN https://www.facebook.com/NaN :)
- getdavidhiggins 13y agoAlso: https://www.facebook.com/window.location.href https://www.facebook.com/window.location.href
- babby 13y agoFor some reason https://www.facebook.com/undefined https://www.facebook.com/undefined is different from a regular 404 like https://www.facebook.com/null https://www.facebook.com/null
- javadi82 13y agoSource, Dustin Moskovitz: 1-3 were accounts used to test registration. Evidently it only took Mark 3 tries to clear the bugs. Link: http://qr.ae/NMpX6 http://qr.ae/NMpX6 (Does not require login)
- nkg 13y agoI clicked 3 zones before finding myself in front of a dick pic.
- nkg 13y agoOh, an ass.
- sytelus 13y agoSo FB allows to GET 1.2B profile images without getting blocked? If so, is using that data legal? If so, how can I get my hands on it :).
- D9u 13y agoThis a good example of why I don't use Facebook, although I do like the premise here.
- murtali 13y agohttp://i.imgur.com/mqct6hZ.png http://i.imgur.com/mqct6hZ.png Where it all started zoom
- shortstuffsushi 13y agoInterestingly, the first 14 "members," or at least images, are male. I'm not immediately familiar with the early development team of Facebook, but it appears that they didn't start sharing with their female friends immediately.
- hnha 13y agoor maybe they did but their friends were not interested.
- Aqueous 13y agoYeah... No, you're right, you're totally significant.
- rorrr2 13y agoWhat's the point of this? Visualizations usually have a goal to display some data or relationships/connections in a useful way.
- elwell 13y agoInteresting to see a lot of Harvard grads on row #1 indeed.
- abalashov 13y agoI was quite surprised by the [edit: relatively] prodigious amount of penises.
- unclebucknasty 13y agoMost of those were people who just look like penises.
- corobo 13y agoIdle curiosity for the mathfolk, by clicking somewhere at random what's the chances of getting your own picture to load?
- etaihugi 13y agohttp://www.millionsinglesproject.com/ http://www.millionsinglesproject.com/