About
- Founded in February 2004, based in Palo Alto, California.
- Servers: More than 10,000 in April 2008; More than 30,000 in October 2009.
- 2009: More than 25 terabytes of data per day in logging data (about 1,000 times the volume of mail delivered daily by the U.S. Postal Service); 80 billion images (20 billion images, each in four sizes).
- July 2010: 2.8GB torrent list with access to more than 100 million individual users' details and friend profiles downloaded by A.C. Nielsen, Agilent Technologies, Apple, AT&T, Baker & McKenzie, BBC, Bertelsmann Media, Boeing, Church of Scientology, Cisco Systems, Cox Enterprises, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Deutsche Telekom, Disney, Duracell, Ernst & Young, Fujitsu, Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, HBO & Company, Hilton Hospitality, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Levi Strauss & Co., Lockheed-Martin Corp, Lucasfilm, Lucent, Lucent Technologies, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Mcafee, MetLife, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Northrop Grumman, Novell, Nvidia, O'Melveny & Myers, Oracle Corp, Pepsi Cola, Procter & Gamble, Random House, Raytheon, Road Runner RRWE, Seagate, Sega, Siemens AG, Sony Corporation, Sprint, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, The Hague, Time Warner Telecom, Turner Broadcasting System, Ubisoft Entertainment, Unisys, United Nations, Univision, USPS, Viacom, Vodafone, Wells Fargo, Xerox PARC.
Statistics (March 2010)
People
- More than 500 million active users (7.5% of World population).
- 50% of active users logging on in any given day (3.75% of World population).
- Average user has 130 friends.
- People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook (more than 13,503 centuries).
Activity
- Over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages).
- Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events.
- Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month.
- More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
Global Reach
- 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 1 million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries.
- Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications.
- More than 550,000 active applications.
- More than 1 million websites.
- More than 150 million people engage on external websites every month.
- Integrated 2/3 of comScore's U.S. Top 100 websites and 1/2 of comScore's Global Top 100 websites.
Mobile
- More than 150 million active users (twice more active than non-mobile users).
- More than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products.
