This morning Facebook announced that it had passed 1 billion active monthly users – an impressive number by any measure. Here are are the lastest user stats from Facebook:
Facebook
reached 1 billion monthly active users on September 14 at 12.45 PM Pacific time. Since
Facebook launched:
- Over 1.13 trillion likes since launch in February
2009 - 140.3 billion friend connections
- 219 billion photos uploaded
- Data was pulled on 9/10/2012, and represents the total # of photos
currently on this site – in other words, it excludes deleted photos. If
we wanted to include all photos ever uploaded, the estimate we have is 265
billion. Photo uploading launched fall 2005. - Includes location-tagged posts as well as check-ins.
Data was pulled 9/10/2012, and represents total location-tagged posts &
check-ins since launch of the product in August 2010 - Data
was pulled on 9/11/2012, and represents song plays since the launch of
music-listening applications in September 2011
- Data was pulled on 9/10/2012, and represents the total # of photos
- 17 billion location-tagged posts, including check-ins
- 62.6 million songs have been
played 22 billion times – that’s about 210,000 years of music
Characteristics of users joining the
week Facebook hit 1B
- The median age of the user is about
22 - The top five countries where people connected
from at the time we reached this milestone were Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico
and the United States (NOTE: in alphabetical order) - Facebook now has 600M mobile users
Characteristics of users joining the
week Facebook hit 500M users (July 2010)
- The median age of the user at that
time was about 23 - Top five countries where people connected
from at the time we reached this milestone were Brazil, India, Indonesia,
Mexico, and the United States (NOTE: in alphabetical order) - Users signing up at this time now
have an average of 305 friends
Characteristics of users joining the
week we hit 100M (August 2008)
- The median age of the user at that
time was about 26 - The top five countries where people
connected from at the time we reached this milestone were Chile, France,
Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States (NOTE: in alphabetical order) - The user signing up at this time now
has an average 334 friends
Characteristics of users joining the
week Facebook hit 50M users (October 2007)
- The median age of the user signing
up at this time was about 26 - Top five countries where people
connected from at the time we reached this milestone were Australia, Canada, Turkey,
the United Kingdom and the United States (NOTE: in alphabetical order) - Users signing up at this time now
have an average of 321 friends
Characteristics of users joining the
week Facebook hit 25M users (January 2006)
- The median age of users signing up
at that time was about 19 - The top five countries where people
connected from at the time we reached this milestone were Australia,
Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States (NOTE: in
alphabetical order) - Users who signed up at this time now
have an average of 598 friends
Here is Mark Zuckerberg's official statement:
"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."
