City of love the top spot for a selfie

The Eiffel Tower is the most popular spot in the world to take a selfie, according to analysis of social media posts so far in 2015. Photo / Thinkstock

Paris' Eiffel Tower is the most popular place to take a selfie, according to a recent analysis by UK-based tourist attraction website AttractionTix.

The company looked at social media to find mentions of travel hot spots alongside the world "selfie", and have compiled a list of the most popular places to pose for a self-taken self portrait.

The Eiffel Tower was in first place, with more than 10,700 posts found so far in 2015, ahead of Disney World in Orlando, Florida and the world's tallest building - the Burj Khalifa - in Dubai.

Big Ben was in fourth place with over 8000 posts, just ahead of the Empire State Building in New York, Gaudi's Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona and Disneyland Paris.

The Colosseum in Rome, Rockefeller Centre in New York and London Bridge completed the top 10.

Simon Applebaum, consumer marketing director at AttractionTix said of the results: "Selfies have not only become acceptable, but the standard thing to do nowadays when at an attraction, so it's only natural that people are taking selfies of themselves when travelling around the world, and then sharing them on social media.

"Our top 10 features traditional sites such as the Eiffel Tower and Colosseum, but it was interesting to see that the Burj Khalifa ranked third, one of the world's newest skyscrapers beat sites with hundreds of years of history."

Other UK landmarks to make the top 40 included Stonehenge, Edinburgh Castle and the Blackpool Tower, as well as London sites Buckingham Place, The London Eye, Madame Tussauds and Tower Bridge.

More than 219 million images tagged with the word "selfie" were analysed in order to compile the data, and according to recent figures more than one million selfies are taken every day around the world.

Top selfie spots, according to AttractionTix's analysis of social media posts:

1. The Eiffel Tower, Paris
2. Disney World, Orlando, Florida
3. The Burj Khalifa, Dubai
4. Big Ben, London
5. The Empire State Building, New York
6. Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Barcelona
7. Disneyland, Paris
8. The Colosseum, Rome
9. The Rockefeller Centre, New York
10. London Bridge, London

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- AAP