This doesn’t solve the problem of bogus and duplicate accounts (Facebook last estimated 8.7 percent of accounts are fake), but it’s still an important distinction to make, since on the Internet, millions of users sign up and never come back.

In short, it’s anyone who actually uses their Facebook login. You might be wondering: what is an active user anyway? Well, Facebook counts active users as anyone with a Facebook account who visits its service on the Web, on mobile, or who uses their account to share something with his or her Facebook friends via a third-party Web site integrated with Facebook. So people will be thinking of ideas and working on prototypes and things that we’ll need to do to help connect the next billion people, which I think is pretty cool. We’re having a hackathon to celebrate this when we announce it publicly, and the theme is going to be the next billion. We have themed hackathons for different things. We don’t want to overly celebrate any particular milestone, so what we do is we have hackathons. We have this ethos where we want to be a culture of builders, right? Well, just everyone came together and counted down. Update: It’s been updated.įacebook of course passed 1 billion accounts a while ago, but today’s announcement appears to be based on the number of genuine accounts it believes its members are actively using, hence “monthly active users.” In an interview with Businessweek, Zuckerberg explained how his company celebrated the moment: Those numbers still haven’t been updated on the company’s Key Facts web page, but they likely will be later this month (if not today). Most recently, the company announced it had 955 million monthly active users as of June 30, 543 million of which accessed the site via mobile, and 552 million daily active users on average for June 2012. While the announcement is definitely huge news, it’s not particularly surprising, as Facebook has been projected to see 1 billion monthly active users before the end of 2012, with more specific timeframes depending on who you ask. Unsurprisingly in this day and age, there’s also a video (warning: it’s an ad): Since Facebook launched, it has seen 1.13 trillion Likes, 140.3 billion friend connections, 219 billion photos uploaded, 17 billion location-tagged posts (including check-ins) and over 62.6 million songs (played 22 billion times). Accompanying the release is a fact sheet, which says the milestone was reached on September 14 at 12:45 PM PST, and breaks down some really impressive statistics.

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