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It’s been just under 90 days since Facebook announced it has crossed the 200 million active user mark. Today, that number is somewhere around 240 million, perhaps even close to 250 million. If Facebook were a country, it would now have the 4th largest population in the world.
While Facebook has been growing at around 300,00 to 400,000 active users per day for most of the last three quarters, its growth rate seems to have again significantly increased in recent weeks to around 700,000 to 750,000 new users per day based on data we are tracking from Facebook’s advertising tools.
If Facebook continues at this rate, it could reach 300 million active users by November. Keep in mind, however, that as has been the case for most of the last year, about 70% of that growth is happening outside the United States. Nevertheless, Facebook still grew at an 8% monthly clip in the US in May, up to nearly 70 million active users today.
In addition, Facebook has recently released updated engagement stats about the way users interact with different features on the site. Some highlights:
- 30 million users update their statuses at least once each day (13 million did per month at the beginning of the year)
- 8 million users become fans of Pages each day (up from 2.5 million per day at the beginning of the year)
- 10 million videos are uploaded each month (up from 4 million)
- 900 million photos are uploaded to the site each month (up from 700 million)
- 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared each week (up from 15 million per month)
- 35 million active groups exist on the site (up from 19 million)
- 2.5 million notes created each month
- 30 million users access Facebook each month through a mobile device
In other words, Facebook’s growth does not appear to be slowing down yet, and engagement is still on the rise.
We’ll of course continue tracking all the latest Facebook stats for you here on Inside Facebook. To dive deeper on how you can engage Facebook’s 240 million users through Facebook Pages, Facebook advertising solutions, Facebook Platform applications, or Facebook Connect for your website, check out Inside Facebook’s Facebook Marketing Bible.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 8:00 am
[...] Via: Inside Facebook [...]
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:26 am
Surpassed the population of my country Indonesia…
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:51 pm
[...] [fonte insidefacebook.com] [...]
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
[...] http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/07/02/facebook-now-growing-by-over-700000-users-a-day-updated-eng... [...]
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Great to hear about this thing.
Facebook is always the best social networking site.
Congrats to Facebook !
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:51 am
[...] Facebook grows by 700,000 users a day [Inside Facebook] [...]
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:58 am
[...] Facebook Now Growing by Over 700,000 Users a Day, and New Engagement Stats… Inside Facebook [...]
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:12 am
[...] “While Facebook has been growing at around 300,00 to 400,000 active users per day for most of the last three quarters, its growth rate seems to have again significantly increased in recent weeks to around 700,000 to 750,000 new users per day based on data we are tracking from Facebook’s advertising tools.” – http://www.insidefacebook.com/ [...]
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:16 am
That’s a great achievement. congrats Facebook.
Thanks
Sankar
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:37 am
[...] these highlights from recently released engagement stats on FB (courtesy of Inside Facebook) tell a story of a community that is on the rise in terms of depth and richness as well as [...]
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:53 am
[...] these highlights from recently released engagement stats on FB (courtesy of Inside Facebook) tell a story of a community that is on the rise in terms of depth and richness as well as [...]
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:14 am
Justin,
When the developers of our party application asked us if they should do a Facebook app, I struggled with the decision.
This report makes me very excited to launch on Facebook!
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:39 am
[...] Source [...]
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 am
Unbelievable!!!
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Excellent, so Facebook has no competitor now
July 4th, 2009 at 3:20 am
[...] Nye tal fra juli 2009 viser, at væksten i antallet af brugere på Facebook stadig må karakteriseres som eksponentiel. På verdensplan vokser netværket med ca. 700.000 nye brugere hver dag. På nuværende tidspunkt har Facebook i omegnen af 250 mio. aktive brugere, men dette tal vil formentlig passere 300 mio. en gang til november. [...]
July 4th, 2009 at 8:24 am
[...] εκατ. ενεργούς χρήστες. Το θυμάστε; Ε, ξεχάστε το! Σύμφωνα με post που υπάρχει στο blog τους το Facebook αποκτά καθημερινά γύρω [...]
July 4th, 2009 at 11:44 am
How many people does Facebook boot off each day for “using the service too much”? How many people deactivate or close their FB accounts each day? How many people sign up and never use Facebook (the type of members FB loves)?
July 4th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
[...] genutzt wird. Jeden Tag melden sich rund 700000 Menschen neu bei Facebook an, hat das Weblog Insidefacebook [...]
July 5th, 2009 at 1:47 am
I’m sure most of those accounts are for spammers, they have tools to create accounts like crazy and then try to get people to click on links
July 5th, 2009 at 3:14 am
Mighty impressive numbers. I might add that Denmark is currently the nation in the world with the greatest Facebook penetration as about 35 % of the country’s population has a profile on Facebook. That’s more than 2 million users in a country with about 5 million citizens!
July 5th, 2009 at 6:27 am
[...] http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/07/02/facebook-now-growing-by-over-700000-users-a-day-updated-en... [...]
July 5th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
[...] condividono – 10 milioni di video e 900 milioni di foto vengono uploadate ogni mese. Secondo i dati il trend di crescita è continuo e non mostra stanchezza come invece è successo con MySpace, [...]
July 7th, 2009 at 9:19 am
[...] for Facebook pages – is of particular interest to businesses. As Facebook continues it’s explosive growth heading towards 250 million active users, more and more businesses are hoping to leverage Facebook for serious business purposes. [...]
July 9th, 2009 at 9:01 am
[...] The growth of this network is phenomenal — they are claiming 700,000 new users every day! Even six months ago, most of my Facebook friends were under 30. Now, even we in the older [...]
July 10th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
[...] Facebook is growing at a rate of 700,000 new users a day, and over 40 million in three months. [...]
July 10th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
[...] The growth of this network is phenomenal — it’s claiming 700,000 new users every day! Even six months ago, most of my Facebook friends were under 30. Now, even we in the older [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 11:12 am
[...] per day for most of the last three quarters, its growth rate increased in recent weeks to around 700,000 to 750,000 new users per day. Keep in mind, however, that as has been the case for most of the last year, about 70% of [...]
July 17th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
[...] While a lot of the buzz in the air seems to be all about Twitter, the silent stalker looms in the background. At the growth rate of Facebook they are on target to surpass Google within the next few moths for uniques visitors. What does that mean? I think we can start believing the hype Facebook Now Growing by Over 700,000 Users a Day. [...]
July 24th, 2009 at 8:31 am
[...] there are 250 million active Facebook users worldwide, with more than 8 million users becoming fans of Pages each [...]
July 28th, 2009 at 12:58 am
[...] population, who in your industry is? With such an active and growing marketplace, according to Facebook by 700,000-750,000 new users per day, you are missing out on one of the most responsive markets [...]
September 4th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Congratulations! FACESBOOKS
September 17th, 2009 at 1:20 am
[...] oltre 200 milioni di utenti attivi Facebook è virtualmente la quarta “nazione” più popolata al mondo, costituendo così uno strumento di visibilità particolarmente utile per azioni di [...]
November 1st, 2009 at 9:14 am
[...] Mind-Blowing Web Stat #4: Not to leave out some of the other obvious big web names of our day, here are two stunning stats on Google and Facebook. Google still owns the search market. Sources estimate that the search goliath receives about two billion queries per day. That said, I think I’m more impressed by InsideFacebook.com’s estimates that the social network is adding 700,000 new users per day. [...]
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:47 am
[...] Mind-Blowing Web Stat #4: Not to leave out some of the other obvious big web names of our day, here are two stunning stats on Google and Facebook. Google still owns the search market. Sources estimate that the search goliath receives about two billion queries per day. That said, I think I’m more impressed by InsideFacebook.com’s estimates that the social network is adding 700,000 new users per day. [...]
November 11th, 2009 at 5:32 am
[...] Mind-Blowing Web Stat #4: Not to leave out some of the other obvious big web names of our day, here are two stunning stats on Google and Facebook. Google still owns the search market. Sources estimate that the search goliath receives about two billion queries per day. That said, I think I’m more impressed by InsideFacebook.com’s estimates that the social network is adding 700,000 new users per day. [...]
December 9th, 2009 at 9:42 am
[...] also can create a new Facebook account and join the estimated 202 million that will do so during that [...]
March 20th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
[...] The growth of this network is phenomenal — it’s claiming 700,000 new users every day! Even six months ago, most of my Facebook friends were under 30. Now, even we in the older [...]
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:55 pm
[...] ist, und der Datenschutz für unzeitgemäß hält, millionenfachen Zuspruch. Mitte 2009 sollen sich täglich 700.000 neue Nutzer bei facebook angemeldet haben. Tendenz natürlich [...]