Facebook Doubles Its U.S. Friends List in 2009
Facebook Doubles Its U.S. Friends List in 2009
Posted 01/25/2010 at 6:45am
| by Paul Lilly
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According to market research firm comScore, Facebook now has more than twice as many U.S. users (111.9 million) than it did in 2008 (54.5 million). To put that into perspective, no other Web company since Google has been as successful as Facebook, which now earns about $2 billion in profit every quarter.
"Ever since it opened registration to the general public back in the fall of 2006, Facebook has seen considerable growth, so it's not like this story is new by any stretch of the imagination," comScore noted. "And yet, even in its native market, Facebook continues to add to its audience at an incredible rate... It now accounts for 7 percent of all time spent online in the U.S."
And it's not just the number of users that so impressed comScore, either. The research firm noted that Facebook manged to "grow substantially across nearly every performance metric," including total pages viewed, average visits per visitor, average minutes per visitor, and several more.
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lunchbox73
January 25, 2010 at 9:42am
Love it or hate it you gotta feel good about a US company being so successful. It's also pretty cool that it's a free product and they're making all that crazy dough based mostly on advertising. Go Facebook! Earn all you can and pump those dollars back into the economy. It's what America is all about.
Neufeldt2002
January 25, 2010 at 7:32am
I look forward to the day when facebook is GONE.
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Nuxes
January 25, 2010 at 9:04am
People who rave against web 2.0 are like the people who opposed steam engines, cars, or computers. Luddites never win.
Neufeldt2002
January 25, 2010 at 10:16am
Don't hate web 2.0 just facebook. I tried them for a week, just couldn't get into it. Then they change their privacy policy and controls and it sealed the deal. If ANY other company did what facebook did, people would be leaving by the numbers. It makes me wonder what the collective intelligence of the users is. Key word is Collective. Not to mention the blatant harvasting of user info for sale to the highest bidder. Everyone thought MySpace was the greatest, they fell, facebook will too.
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