Facebook passes one billion users
 

Facebook now has more than one billion people using it every month, the company has said.

The passing of the milestone was announced by founder Mark Zuckerberg on US television on Thursday.

The company said that those billion users were to date responsible for 1.13 trillion "likes", 219 billion photos and 17 billion location check-ins.

The site, which was launched in 2004, is now looking towards emerging markets to build its user base further.

"If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you," Mr Zuckerberg wrote in a status update.

"Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life."

Statistics released to coincide with the announcement revealed there were now 600 million users accessing the site via a mobile device - up 48 million from 552 million in June this year.

Since its early beginnings at Harvard University, Facebook users have befriended each other 140.3 billion times.

Mark Zuckerberg recently visited Russia, where he met with prime minister Dmitry Medvedev
Sustained growth is seen as crucial if Facebook is to maintain its value - the company has seen its share price drop to about $22 (£17) from a starting price of $38.

Investors will expect the company to look at ways to make more from the users it already has as well as seeking to attract new users in areas of the world where it does not yet dominate.

"For Facebook the main challenge is not just to grow in terms of numbers, but more importantly to deepen and enrich engagements," said Eden Zoller, principal analyst at tech research firm Ovum.

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Although the service is by far the world's biggest social network, there are key areas, such as China and Russia, where local competitors still remain the online networking tool of choice.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19816709

Half are probably old/duplicate profiles.

Without counting the fake profils

Pretty easy to rack up membership numbers if you never delete accounts.

400 without counting them.

fuck facebook

I don't give a facefuck about that...

Hasn't done shit for their share-price though. Doooown!

:2 cents::thumbsup

oh oh .... :pimp

I got rid of my facebook recently, after they merged all profiles to timeline and had the mistake that personal messages appeared in your 2009 timeline as wall posts I was done with it. There wasn't anything too embarrassing but those were messages that people sent you, not sure what I had floating out on someone else profile.

fuck facebook

I saw that, that's crazy. So once you are de-activated nothing shows up?

To be honest, I don't know for certain, but I think it takes you down. I deleted my facebook and got a bunch of texts from people asking what happened so I imagine it deleted my content.

I read a few profiles to see if the rumors of the personal messages being up were true and I was convinced.

You could have changed your name on your profile first to like 'Bob Smith' then de activate
That is what I should do.

And other half spammer profiles

thanks for the news you brainless idiot.

360 000 000 only

That's a decent idea, time to re-activate and do it.

Deleting it is useless, to re-activate you just need to log back in. First few days were tough to not just instinctively click on facebook.

Yeah they're being generous saying 100 "users"... it's more like 1 billion profiles. How much you want to bet they open just as many themselves as affiliate bots do, just to inflate their numbers.

Yep, you welcome.

The only thing that counts is the number of dollars they make.

Like Google, Facebook thinks it *is* the internet. I'm keeping it Gentile.

Congratulations to making the Feds job a whole lot easier at facial recognition and ;earning about your life!
All Winners!

That's a whole lot of morons looking at their second cousin's baby pictures.