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# Facebook Hits 1 Billion Active Users, Releases Stats, User Characteristics [Median Age Falls]
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/facebook-hits-1-billion-active-users-releases-stats-user-characteristics-median-age-falls/
- Published: 2012-10-04T10:20:12.000Z
- Updated: 2012-10-04T10:20:12.000Z
- Description: 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:
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Social Media, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:49

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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
- **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."