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Eiffel Tower is considered as the best place for selfie

Автор: OUTLOOK 09.02.2015 | France

Eiffel Tower was called as the best backdrop for selfie-shots in the world.

The experts of web-portal AttractionTix dedicated to the tourist landmarks prepared an appropriate rating.

They compounded top-list studying the statistics in social media upon selfie done by tourists. Specialists explored that since the beginning of 2015 Eiffel tower was mentioned in more than 10.7 thousand posts in Instagram. Thus, it left behind the entertaining complex Disney World in Florida (almost 9.9 thousand posts) which is now situated at the second place of rating. Dubaian skyscraper Burj Khalifa (8.86 thousand posts) took the third position.

In top-10 list of the most popular ones there appeared London Big Ben, New York Empire-state-building, the Church of Saint Family in Barcelona, Parisian «Disneyland», Roman Coliseum, viewing platform Top of the Rock in New York and London bridge, as it is reported by Lenta.ru.

«Selfie became not only acceptable but also usual thing for tourists nowadays», it is stated by Simon Applebaum from AttractionTix. The expert draws attention to the fact that at the third place in rating there is a relatively new point of interest, having the jump on objects with centurial history.

As The Daily Mail writes, currently in social media hashtag #selfie marks nearly 219 million images. Owners of unattached devices with integrated camera take approximately one million self-portraits a day.

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