Just back from holiday and am still digesting what’s been written while I was away. While I’m pondering it all and also penning a new post, I thought I’d share some Facebook stats I’ve just found quoted, sourced to Facebook themselves :-
- Over 150,000 registrants daily. That's 1 million a week since January.
- 35 million current users as of this week
- Half users are outside college. That number was zero in Sept. 2006.
- 0ver 40 billion page views in May 2007
- Average visitor stays 20 minutes
- Most growth is among people over age 25.
- 47,000 Facebook groups.
- #1 photo sharing app on the web. 2.7 billion photos on site.
- More than 2000 applications. The Top 10 are: Top Friends, Video, Graffiti, MyQuestions, iLike, FreeGifts, X Me, Superpoke!, Fortune Cookie & Horoscopes. The smallest of these has over 4.5 million users.
- London the biggest Facebook city with nearly 1 million users registered in the London Network
Out of all of this the part I actually find most interesting is the 2.7 billion photos....thats a lot of tags, links and entry points for users to invite their friends to sign up
Those are some very big numbers and they have got one hell of a virtuous circle of growth. Inevitably this will slow but I'd be very amazed if Facebook is just the passing phase or flash in the pan some people are claiming it is!
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