Corporate networks on Facebook double in first week to almost 2,000
Taking a look at the corporate network listings on Facebook this morning I noticed that the number of registered companies has increased from 878 to 1,855 since Facebook started taking requests for new corporate networks last week. That’s a weekly growth rate of 111%–not bad.
The real question here is whether Facebook can gain enough traction in corporate cultures to have staying power with new members that were not previously on Facebook. It’s unknown how many of these work networks were started by previously existing vs. new Facebook members.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
[...] A couple of weeks ago, facebook opened up to certain companies, and now there are nearly two thousand registered companies. I wonder how many corporate registrants are doing what I’m doing — logging on to check things out and get a first-hand look at what has been going on inside the walled garden. Yes, I’m saying I joined facebook for work. I am aware this sounds vaguely like “I only buy Playboy for the articles” but in this case it really is true. As a message on another Intuit employee’s facebook wall says, “I’m not Facebooking at work, I’m researching Web 2.0!” [...]