The social networking behemoth rumbles on. As of yesterday, Facebook has over 140 million active users. The site is growing at a rate of 600,000 users a day. That's a whole lot of poking.
Extrapolating the trend, you find that by March the company could hit 200 million active users. Interestingly, 70% of the growth is coming from outside the States, meaning that the market in the USA (and likely the UK, too) has possibly matured and is no longer growing as fast.
A few fast facts:
- The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older
- Average user has 100 friends on the site
- More than 13 million users update their statuses at least once each day (oops - I blame Twitter)
- More than 2 million events created each month
- More than 95% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on Facebook Platform
Even more facts and stats can be found on Facebook's press site.
(via ReadWriteWeb)
Related posts: INQ1 Facebook phone available from 3 as of today | Facebook party wrecks £1m house - Bluetooth & texting to blame too
Into fitness and health gadgets? Check out our new site, Connected Health ,
Check out the best iPhone 4 accessories here
The heading of that chart is wrong, unless Facebook has 140,000,000,000,000 users