Facebook Facts And Figures (5 posts)

  • 50 Fascinating Facebook Facts And Figures The rise and rise of Facebook is producing a scramble by marketers and companies to leverage its huge global database and traffic. 50 Fascinating Facebook Facts And Figures Google is looking over its shoulder as Facebook grows at over 10 million users a month and sits currently at number two on web traffic rankings according to Alexa.com. Last year Facebook surpassed Google for the top ranking for total time spent online. Google is even being forced to continually adjust its search engine algorithms to cater for the a social web that provides more prominence for social channels in its search results. Facebook has also become the 3rd largest video website with 46.6 million viewers sitting behind number one ranked video content property provider Google with its YouTube site and Yahoo at second ranking.50 Facebook Facts and Figures

    1. 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook
    2. 35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base
    3. 71.2 % of all USA internet users are on Facebook
    4. In 20 minutes 1,000,000 links are shared on Facebook
    5. In 20 minutes 1,484,000 event invites are posted
    6. In 20 minutes 1,323,000 photos are tagged
    7. In 20 minutes 1,851,000 status updates are entered
    8. In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted
    9. In 20 minutes 2,716,000 photos are uploaded
    10. In 20 minutes 2,716,000 messages are sent
    11. In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted
    12. In 20 minutes 1,587,000 wall posts are written
    13. 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend
    14. 48% of young Americans said they found out about news through Facebook
    15. 48% of 18 to 34 year olds check Facebook right when they wake up
    16. 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
    17. Average user has 130 friends
    18. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
    19. There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
    20. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
    21. Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
    22. More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
    23. More than 70 translations available on the site
    24. About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
    25. Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
    26. Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
    27. People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
    28. Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
    29. Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
    30. More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including over 80 of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and over half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites
    31. There are more than 250 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices
    32. People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
    33. There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
    34. Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage
    35. One early Facebook function was a file sharing service
    36. The first “Work Networks” as well as the original educational networks  included Apple and Microsoft
    37. The meaning of the term poke has never been defined
    38. There is an ‘App’ to see what’s on the Facebook cafe menu
    39. Mark Zuckerburg (CEO of Facebook) calls himself a “Harvard Graduate” when in fact he didn’t graduate (apparently his reply is that “there isn’t a setting for dropout”)
    40. Australian’s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average
    41. A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay
    42. Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal for $500,000
    43. It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment)
    44. Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion
    45. Facebook makes money through advertising  and virtual products
    46. Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who claimed that Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook (the issue was settled out of court)
    47. The USA has the largest Facebook user base with 155 million people which represents 23.6% of Facebook’s total users
    48. There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages
    49. Texas Hold’em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 41 million fans
    50. More than 650 million active users

  • @cohesian the #1 stat is wrong. There are x number of accounts, but 1 in 13 does not count all the double and triple accounts out there.

    #47 – wrong – 174.5 million US accounts

    #50 – wrong – according to FB at IPO there are 845 million active monthly users.

    check your data dude.

  • thanks for your advice i’ll update it soon 

  • Yes,  @cohesian, I would always be careful where you are getting your figures from – many times they are manipulated and don’t give the actual picture.  

  • Thanks Andrea but this is continually growing and this report is almost 2 month before’s 


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