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

Posted 12/18/08 at 03:31:26 PM by Andy Salisbury

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.

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Myspace is better, but eh.
Submitted by Glycerin on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 6:46pm

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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Facebook should die.....
Submitted by ghot on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 9:49am

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

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Amen!
Submitted by DerfMcWoowoo on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 10:59am

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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Probably the economy at work
Submitted by Velcrow on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 9:18am

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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You are CORRECT!
Submitted by DerfMcWoowoo on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 10:56am

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

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MyFaceAss
Submitted by DerfMcWoowoo on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 3:24pm

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

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And the powers that be blame
Submitted by jacob.sorensen on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 3:10pm

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

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That explains a lot
Submitted by EvilHomerGD on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 3:01pm

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

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