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200 million active users and growing!
Sienna Creative Works
By Greg Sande
Monday, May 25, 2009

Just how big is Facebook? Consider this... as Facebook turns five, from August of 2008 until April of 2009 (8 months), Facebook grew from 100 million active users, to 200 million. Right now daily estimated growth is exceeding 500,000 new users each day, or about 10 million every 20 days!

While Facebook is primarily a personal adventure, a place for you and your friends can catch up with one another (mingling online), in the coming weeks, Sienna Creative will show how you can make Facebook work for you business — and place you in touch (personally) with your constituents.

Recent mind-numbing stats from Facebook...

General Growth:

• More than 200 million active users
• More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day
• More than two-thirds of Facebook users are outside of college
• The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older

 

User Engagement:

• Average user has 120 friends on the site
• More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day
• More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day
• More than 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)

 

Applications:

• More than 850 million photos uploaded to the site each month
• More than 8 million videos uploaded each month
• More than 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week
• More than 25 million active user groups exist on the site

 

International:

• About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

 

Mobile:

• There are more than 30 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
• People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
• There are more than 150 mobile operators in 50 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

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