Facebook has 500 Million users!

[Anthony]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10713199

Hard to believe there are more facebook users than every man, woman and child in the United States.
That is just crazy growth. When do you think they will hit a billion???

Facebook hits half a billion users

Social network giant Facebook has registered its 500 millionth member, the firm has announced.

The site, which launched in 2004, has gained around 100 million new users in the last six months.

[Viriatu]

after the later demise of other social sites in some countrys this does not come much of surprise... either way WE webmasters KNOW for a fact this is not a real user count, i would more interested in knowing how many are fake\spam accounts

[Anthony]

Even if 30% are fake it is still a tremendous number.

[quicksilver]

Facebook have not updated their statistics page yet then
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

• More than 400 million active users
• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
• Average user has 130 friends
• People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook

[universal4]

I would like to know the true value of unique accounts and what the average number of accounts is for those with multiple accounts.

Rick
Universal4

[grem]

500 million time wasters

[baldidiot]

I would like to know the true value of unique accounts and what the average number of accounts is for those with multiple accounts.

Rick
Universal4

+1

And it's not just marketers or spammers with multiple accounts - my dad managed to register 3 or 4 whilst setting it up! I kept getting friend requests from him...

[penny-slot-machines]

So 75% of them are people's dad hammering away all day at the 'register now' button!

That takes it down to 125m users already...

[Colossal]

that number is grossly inflated, and the same fake/automated users problem but MUCH worse for Twitter and other blogging and microblogging platforms

[LuckyLizzy]

Facebook is still a very powerful marketing tool in my opinion even if 75% of them are people's dads. It is nice that so many locations are joining together on one social networking site. It connects us all in a way like never before

[PremTips]

+1

And it's not just marketers or spammers with multiple accounts - my dad managed to register 3 or 4 whilst setting it up! I kept getting friend requests from him...

Haha

Regardless of dad's and spam signing up a number of accounts, a large percentage of the 500m are genuine and there is huge potential with Facebook.

[universal4]

The companies that do nothing but type captchas all day long are very VERY busy....and they service many markets....

Rick
Universal4

[goldenhorseshoe]

and still growing.........

[goldenhorseshoe]

A social network for the new generation.

Agree or Disagree?

[GamTrak]

Facebook is an awesome tool for a variety of things, but I've found it to be an excellent tool to cross-over to a non-igaming field that will eventually benifit my igaming business.

Don't be fooled into thinking that folks are just wasting time and it's made up of spam bots because that is far from accurate.

FB knows the power they have and IMO doing a decent job to make it the best environment possible. Here is one recent example. Why a top Facebook app maker vanished

[Joshua.K]

Facebook is an awesome tool for a variety of things, but I've found it to be an excellent tool to cross-over to a non-igaming field that will eventually benifit my igaming business.

Don't be fooled into thinking that folks are just wasting time and it's made up of spam bots because that is far from accurate.

FB knows the power they have and IMO doing a decent job to make it the best environment possible. Here is one recent example. Why a top Facebook app maker vanished

Well Agreed, I always hear people saying it is a waste of time, but I think those who crack it will be extremely successful.

[PioneerRalph]

I like that i get invited to lots of parties on FB, I'm certainly drunk more often since the advent of social media, and my belly is definitely bigger

[Gregory.Weiner]

That's just insane, even considering multiple accounts. I wonder how much more can it grow.

[Renee]

I think I read the other day that approximately 80,000 are multiple accounts, fake accounts, accounts for pets etc etc..

[universal4]

This was an older threra that had been dug up and the totals are over 800 million now with 10% (and I think more) being fake/duplicate.

Rick
Universal4