Facebook Hits One
Billion Active Users
Facebook just officially
reached one billion active users, Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg
has announced.
“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,” wrote
Zuckerberg in an official blog
post.
Facebook had 955 million
active users in July 2012, and though gaining 45 million users is not a small
task, it seems as if the world’s biggest online social network took a little
bit more time than expected reaching the 1 billion-milestone.
Still, it’s an enormous number,
dwarfing most other players in the social networking space by several orders of
magnitude. It took Facebook several years to reach the magical 100 million number
back in 2008,
but from then on it seemed like Mark Zuckerberg’s baby could not be stopped.
However, Facebook started looking
a lot more vulnerable after its stock
plummeted following the less-than-stellar initial
public offering in May 2012.
Grateful to: mashable.com
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