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Rio 2016: 1.5 Billion Facebook Interactions; 916 Million on Instagram



The 2016 Summer Olympic Games spurred 1.5 billion interactions from 277 million unique users on Facebook and 916 million interactions from 131 million Instagram users from Aug. 5 through 21.

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Facebook said in an email to SocialTimes that the five posts that tallied the most likes, comments and shares during Rio 2016 were:

Cristiano Ronaldo congratulates Usain Bolt (below).
Neymar following Brazil?s gold-medal victory in soccer.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulates P.V. Sindhu.
Zac Efron surprising Simone Biles. Bolt posing with one of his gold medals.

The five ?loudest? countries on Facebook were:

Brazil
U.S.
U.K.
Mexico
India

Facebook said 15.2 million people used its Olympics temporary profile picture frames, and the top three countries were:

India
Philippines
Pakistan

The moment that spurred the greatest use of the Love Reaction was Efron?s photo with Biles (below).

The top five athletes overall in terms of interactions from Aug. 5 through 22 were:

Michael Phelps
Bolt
Neymar
Biles
Katie Ledecky

And the top events were:

Swimming
Gymnastics
Track
Soccer
Beach volleyball

Finally, Facebook pointed out that a Facebook Live broadcast by Phelps (e...
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