lies, damned lies, and statistics
- April 8th, 2009
- Posted in Culture
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facebook did a press release and threw a bunch of numbers about the site. i’m glad to announce i’m not one of their statistics.
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 olderUser 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 dayApplications
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 siteInternational Growth
More than 40 translations available on the site, with more than 50 in development
About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United StatesPlatform
More than 660,000 developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
More than 52,000 applications currently available in the Facebook Application Directory
More than 5,000 applications have 10,000 or more monthly active users
More than 8,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008Mobile
There are more than 30 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
There are more than 150 mobile operators in 50 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
what is facebook?
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