Facebook By the Numbers: One Billion Social Users and Growing

By Rob Scott
October 5, 2012

Following Facebook’s announcement that it had reached the one billion user milestone, Mark Zuckerberg posted compelling stats to the Facebook Newsroom.
According to the fact sheet, the social network has experienced over 1.13 trillion “likes” (since February 2009), 140.3 billion friend connections and 219 billion photos uploaded.
However, the data excludes deleted photos. “If we wanted to include all photos ever uploaded, the estimate we have is 265 billion,” explains Facebook. “Photo uploading launched fall 2005.”
Additional numbers include 17 billion location-tagged posts (including check-ins) since the feature’s August 2010 launch, and 62.6 million songs have been played 22 billion times since September 2011 (“about 210,000 years of music”).
The median age of registered users has dropped from 26 in 2007 to 22 in 2012. Also, Facebook now has 600 million mobile users.

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