In 2004 Facebook was launched by a student from Harvard University called Mark Zuckerberg, since then its continuously increasing its popularity worldwide. Facebook is now used in many countries around the globe and accessible in many different languages for the users . Since its launch in 2004 Facebook is growing rapidly, and it is leaving its competitors far behind in social networking. Here are some statistics which will blow you AWAY. Facebook has a 50 million users lead which has grown to about 70 million over the summer 2009. It has been estimated that facebook will grow more over the next few years and will have a gap of more than 50 % from its next competitor Twitter and MySpace. Facebook users now spend more than 6 billion minutes each day worldwide. Facebook currently has 300 million active users, where 19 million or over active users are from the UK itself.
For more statistics on Facebook visit here:
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics.
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/01/11/a-collection-of-soical-network-stats-for-2009/
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Ali Raza
there are some interestinf statistics on you findings. Thinking about one third of the British population uses facebook and the amount of time people spend on the internet.
What strike me is how fast this social site has grown