Facebook with yesterday facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote in note surprised about the facebook users by the end of this month to reach billions of users.
note the following quote from Mark Zuckerberg
"One Billion People on Facebook
This morning, there are more
than one billion people using Facebook actively each month.
If you’re reading this: thank
you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you.
Helping a billion people
connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my
life.
I am committed to working
every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we
will be able to connect the rest of the world too.
Just to make it clear,
Facebook’s total registered user base must have passed the one billion mark
some time ago, but Facebook is focusing on monthly active users, a much more
relevant metric.
Facebook has grown
exponentially in the last couple of years, driven primarily by increasing
global mobile penetration and initiatives like Facebook Zero.
It also shared some other
interesting stats. Since launch, it has seen more than 219 billion photos
uploaded, 140 billion friend connections and 1.13 trillion likes.
The timing of the
announcement is great, as it comes right before Facebook gets ready to report
its earnings for the third quarter of 2012.
If users were citizens,
Facebook would now be the third largest country in the world after China and
India. In the next couple of years, it may even overtake both.
What remains to be seen is
whether or not Facebook is able to effectively monetize its growing user base
and become the $100 billion company it was touted to be.
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