Today is April 8th, 2010 and I was wondering how much the Facebook numbers have grown. I hadn’t check in a while due to a busy schedule but I thought I would take a peek this morning and share the numbers with all of my visitors. Below I have typed out the Facebook Statistics to give you a better idea the power house Facebook really is and what kind of potential you have by establishing a strong presence within this social networking phenomenon.
Company Figures
- More than 400 million active users
- 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- More than 35 million users update their status each day
- More than 60 million status updates posted each day
- More than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
- More than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week
- More than 3.5 million events created each month
- More than 3 million active Pages on Facebook
- More than 1.5 million local businesses have active Pages on Facebook
- More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day
- Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans
Average User Figures
- Average user has 130 friends on the site
- Average user sends 8 friend requests per month
- Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook
- Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month
- Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month
- Average user becomes a fan of 4 Pages each month
- Average user is invited to 3 events per month
- Average user is a member of 13 groups
International Growth
- More than 70 translations available on the site
- About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
- Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
Platform
- More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
- Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
- More than 500,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
- More than 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users
- More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008
- More than 60 million Facebook users engage with Facebook Connect on external websites every month
- Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have implemented Facebook Connect
Mobile
- There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
- People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
- There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
Source: Facebook Stats
Clifton,
Wow! Thanks for the update – it is amazing! All the numbers are in the hundreds of millions and billions. This sure is the place to be and meet people.
Thank you very much for keeping us posted on the fast growth of the social media sites.
Gratefully,
Venus :)
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Thanks Venus! Those numbers are very impressive and almost unbelievable!
Hey Clifton, great stats article! Wondering if there is a solid overall strategy for FB marketing?
Hey Clifton,
These numbers are staggering! Thanks for bringing it all together in one post. What a tremendous impact the internet and Social Media has made on the world today.
Amazing,
Val
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Oh my gosh – I knew it was powerful but really had no idea these kind of numbers existed! Thanks for the info~
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Hi Clifton,
As a former researcher, I’m really looking forward to learning more about the demographics and utilization on Facebook. Thank you for giving so much great information.
Keep it coming, I’m looking forward to more.
Thanks,
Al
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Thanks for some impressive stats to live by! Gives me a new enthusiasm for picking up my FB activity.
Everybody’s got an opinion on what works best, but numbers don’t lie! Great info to be armed with, Clifton.
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It is amazing the people on Facebook. I knew it was big, but Da** that is Amazing.
Thanks for the info!!
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Wow, those numbers are impressive to say the least! I guess I need to get more serious about my facebook strategy! :) Thanks for sharing this, Clifton, truly amazing.
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Wow Clifton, I have never come across such detailed Facebook stats. These are great to know, thank you so much for sharing these!
Cool Clifton! Thanks so much for sharing these statistics! I love seeing all the numbers. I was a Economics/Statistics major in school. :)
Aloha,
Kellie :)
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