A Half a Billion Facebook Users

By  |  Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 10:26 am

Facebook announced this morning that it has a half a billion active users–a fact that it’s celebrating with a new Facebook app called Facebook Stories.

(My favorite thing about Facebook by far: It’s helped me reconnect with dozens of people from my past who I probably would never have encountered again otherwise.)

A little context on the service’s membership milestone:

Population of earth: 6.9 billion

Number of people worldwide who live in poverty: over three billion

Internet users: 1.8 billion

Population of China 1.3 billion

Population of India: 1.1 billion

Active Facebook members: 500 million

Population of United States: 309 million

Twitter users per month: 190 million

McDonalds customers per day: 60 million

Population of New York City: 8.4 million

Sunday New York Times circulation: 1.4 million

Facebook users in December 2004: Almost a million

Unique Technologizer visitors in June: 310,000

Population of Palo Alto, where Facebook is headquartered: 63,000

Population of Monaco: 33,000

 
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  1. Sawyer Says:
    July 22nd, 2010 at 8:24 am

    LOL at the stats. 😀

    I should add this:

    Total number of nuke warheads in the world: 23,375 (estimated)

  2. Regalos de empresa Says:
    December 18th, 2011 at 2:50 am

    My favorite thing about Facebook by far: It’s helped me reconnect with dozens of people from my past who I probably would never have encountered again otherwise.
    Regalos de empresa

  3. Marty Says:
    January 23rd, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    Facebook really change the world of communication and social media. Hope they will still reinvent more and more in a positive way. Best Semi-Pro Digital SLR Cameras