Thursday 9 April 2009

Facebook now has 200m active users

"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 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day
More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day
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 2.5 million events created each month
More than 25 million active user groups exist on the site
International Growth
More than 40 translations available on the site, with more than 50 in development
About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States"
Source: Facebook Press Statistics, retrieved 9th April 2009.
For the growth levels, compare to this set, retrieved in late December 2008

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