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Sahana Mysore at Inside Facebook says that Facebook’s growth in South America is driven by its Spanish translation and its deal with telecom operator Telephonica to allows it direct access from the mobile homepage –

At the beginning of 2008, less than 100,000 people in Argentina (with a population of 40 million) had accounts on Facebook. Now – just one year later – about 2 million Argentines, or 5.3% of Argentina’s population, are on Faceboook. That’s an annual growth rate of over 2000% for the year.

This growth hasn’t been limited to Argentina – other South American countries like Chile, Venezuela, and Peru have also had remarkable growth at rates of 3768%, 1277%, and 328%, respectively.

I’m wondering when Facebook would launch a Portuguese version targeted at Brazil to break Orkut’s monopoly there.

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