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Facebook's Latest Growth Stats Full of Very, Very Large Numbers

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And when we say large, we absolutely mean it. Facebook, having just hit the 130 million active user mark at the beginning of December, is already up to a whopping 140 million.

Facebook’s projected growth was about 300,000 to 400,000 active users per day for most of the fourth quarter. Recently, that number has gone as high as 600,000 to 700,000 per day. Should Facebook’s growth continue at that rate, it’ll add up to 20 million new users in December alone and reach 200 million active users by March.

What’s even more fun, is that Facebook has released numbers on how their users spend their time on the site (creepy, huh?). 13 million user update their statuses at least once each day, 700 million photos are uploaded to the site each month, 4 million videos are uploaded each month, 15 million pieces of content (including web links, news stories, blog posts, notes and photos) are shared each month, and there are 19 million active groups on the site.

So what do all these numbers mean? Simply put, the number of users Facebook has is greatly increasing, as is their engagement on the site.

 

Image Credit: Inside Facebook

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avatarMyspace is better, but eh.

Myspace is better, but eh. I'd rather go back to social networking in the 90's a la BBSing. (Bulletin Board Systems)You dial into a PC and talk to others online, and everything was all text.

 

Seriously, who still uses IE?

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avatarFacebook should die.....

As said below...its not P2P thats congesting the intenet its Facebook and its evil minions.

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avatarAmen!

Agreed on all accounts! I could not have said...err...typed that better myself. I'll bring my pitch fork and torch, you bring the lynch mob. Let's take down MyFaceAss!!

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avatarProbably the economy at work

Probably the economy at work again. Nobody has money to do anything else but sit at home and socialize over the Net for free. Damn coffee shops are too expensive. ;)

BTW, is that chart wrong to anyone else? It states the numbers are in (Millions), but then the numbers down the side are ALREADY in millions. So it should be obvious. Technically, if we applied the (Millions) to the numbers on the side, we would have 140 million million, or 140,000,000,000,000, or 140 trillion active users. Just being an ass I guess. heh

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avatarYou are CORRECT!

Yes, I noticed the inaccuracy of the chart also. It would indeed imply that trillions of people are using MyFaceAss.

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avatarMyFaceAss

Butt does anybody really care about myfaceass? I go with Gordon on this one. Stay away. Far far away.

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avatarAnd the powers that be blame

And the powers that be blame bittorrent users for all the bandwidth congestion.....

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avatarThat explains a lot

That would explain why their site has seemed so slow lately...

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