Facebook: A 10-Year Timeline

Facebook: The 10-Year Timeline o 111,098,433 likes · 1,226,304 talking about this Facebook was born a decade ago. Here's how it came to be the $150+ billion Internet giant it is today: 100 M 500 M (Average monthly users) 1 B 1.2 B 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches TheFacebook.com. Within 24 hours more than 1,200 Harvard undergrads sign up. February 2004 Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder invests $500,000. Zuckerberg moves Facebook offices to Palo Alto, Calif. Like - Comment Share June 2004 Like - Comment - Share DEC 2004: 1 million users 2005 Accel Partners invests $12.7 million in TheFacebook.com. ACCEL PARTNERS May 2005 TheFacebook.com is renamed just Facebook. August 2005 Facebook allows users to upload photos for the first time. October 2005 Like - Comment - Share Like - Comment Share Zuckerberg rejects an offer of $1 billion from Yahoo. Facebook allows users without college email ids to sign up and launches YAHOO! the first iteration of the Newsfeed. September 2006 DEC 2006: 12 million users APR 2007: 20 million users Harvard colleagues Cameron and Tyler Winklewoss claim that Zuckerberg stole the idea, code for Facebook and sue. July 2007 Microsoft offers $15 billion for Facebook. Zuckerberg says no. Microsoft buys a 1.6% equity stake for $240 million instead. Like - Comment Share October 2007 Like - Comment Share Facebook introduces privacy controls. March 2008 Zuckerberg settles the Winklewoss twins' lawsuit for an undisclosed sum. Facebook launches its first iPhone app. June 2008 December 2008 Like - Comment - Share Users can use Facebook to log into third-party site and apps. December 2008 Lf Facebook adds the Like button. February 2009 APR 2009: 200 million users 2010 JUL 2008: 500 million users The Social Network, a biopic about Zuckerberg and Facebook, is released. The film goes on to win four Academy Awards. Zuckerberg is named Time magazine's Person of the Year. October 2010 December 2010 Like - Comment - Share Like - Comment - Share Facebook launches the first iteration of the Timeline. September 2011 Facebook introduces ads in the Newsfeed as Featured Posts. January 2012 Facebook files for IPO, reports $3.7 billion revenue. February 2012 Facebook shares (NASDAQ:FB) are offered to the public at $38 per share. By the end of the month, it falls to $30. Like - Comment - Share May 2012 Like - Comment Share DEC 2012: 1.06 billion users 2013 Facebook launches Graph Seach. March 2013 Facebook stock closes at $54.63 on December 31, 2013. DEC 2013: 1.23 billion users December 2013 100 M 500 M (Average monthly users) 1 B 1.2 B Like - Comment - Share By Lisa Mahapatra for International Business Times; Sources: Facebook, Yahoo Finance