Facebook Hits 1 Billion Users
The world’s biggest social network, Facebook, has reached a new milestone by officially reaching over 1 billion active monthly users!
The update to the size of Facebook, founded only in 2004 from a college dorm room, was announced by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a statuts update on the morning of October 4.
“This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. If you’re reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you. Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too.”
Facebook hit the long-sought, 10-digit user mark at precisely 12.45 p.m. PT on September 14. This would make approximately 1 in 7 people on Earth a user of Facebook, given the the latest world population estimate of 7.04 billion.
