Facebook 2012: Facts & Figures

Compiled by Website-Monitoring.com facebook 2012 Mission: Facts and Figures Giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. More than People on Facebook 1 billion monthly active users Average user has 130 friends on the site 58% Tx130 More than return daily 125 billion friend connections OFacebook user averages Each day More than 3.2 billion More than likes & comments 300 million photos are uploaded Male Female 43% Gender 57% 20 minutes More than 600 million average time spent per visit active users currently access Facebook through their mobile devices OGlobal reach Available in more than 70 languages More than 81% users are outside the U.S. and Canada Over 300,000 OPlatform users helped translate the site through the translations app On average, people on Facebook install apps more than More than 20 million 1 million websites are integrated with Facebook times every day 80% of businesses are active on Facebook OTop 10 countries 53.0% United Kingdom 6. 33,036,540 users 54.1% United States 167,821,900 users 39.1% France 34.6% 25,338,840 users Mexico 38,949,460 users 30.1% Germany 10. 24,845,100 users 5.1% India 3. 59,399,300 users 40.5% Turkey 31,492,640 use 29.9 % Philippines 8. 29,852,680 users 29.7% Brazil 20.5% Indonesia 59,656,820 users 4. 49,703,760 users X. |- rank by number of users XX% - population penetration Top 10 pages Facebook for Every Phone Eminem 147,959,522 fans 61,461,936 fans Facebook The Simpsons 78,540,066 fans | 55,259,350 fans Texas HoldEm Poker Shakira 65,964,920 fans 55,153,286 fans Azyngapoker 3. 8. YouTube You 63,795,869 fans Tube Lady Gaga 53,314,363 fans Rihanna Coca-Cola 61,800,728 fans 52,706,227 fans 5. 10. Top 10 brands Top 10 apps Coca-Cola BlackBerry Smartphones App 52,706,227 fans 59,800,000 MAU* Disney Texas HoldEm Poker 38,561,285 fans 38,300,000 MAU* Converse Instagram 33,271,646 fans 34,700,000 MAU* conVERSE 3. Red Bull TripAdvisor 32,477,511 fans Red Bull 30,300,000 MAU* 4 Starbucks schoolFeed 32,270,615 fans 25,700,000 MAU* Oreo OREO Scribd 28,097,777 fans 23,500,000 MAU PlayStation Windows Live Messenger 24,562,398 fans 23,300,000 MAU* iTunes Bing |bing 23,744,117 fans 23,100,000 MAU* 8. McDonald's Spotify 22,500,000 MAU Spotify 23,424,402 fans Skittles Samsung Mobile Skit 23,406,479 fans 21,300,000 MAU* (10 (10. *MAU - Monthly Active Users OTimeline February Mark Zuckerberg and co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin launch Facebook from their Harvard dorm 2004 room. March Facebook expands from Harvard to Stanford, Columbia and Yale. Facebook moves its base of operations to Palo Alto, California. June Groups application is added; the Wall is added as a Profile feature. Facebook reaches 1 million active users. 2005 December September August The company officially changes its name to Facebook from thefacebook.com. Facebook raises $12.7 million in venture capital from Accel Partners; Facebook grows to support more than 800 college networks. May Facebook expands to add high school networks. September Photos is added as an application. Facebook begins to add international school networks. Facebook reaches October 6 million active users. April Facebook raises $27.5 million from Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and others. Facebook Mobile feature launches. December Facebook development platform launches. Notes application is introduced. Facebook and Microsoft form strategic relationship for banner ad syndication. August 2006 November Share feature added on Facebook, simultaneously launched on over 20 partner sites. Facebook expands to add work networks. / May Facebook reaches News Feed and Mini-Feed are introduced with additional privacy controls. Facebook expands registration so anyone can join. 12 million active users. December 2007 September Virtual gift shop launches as February a feature. April Facebook reaches 20 million active users. Facebook updates site design and adds network portals. Facebook reaches 2 million July active Canadian users and Facebook 1 million acquires startup Parakey. March active UK users. Facebook launches Marketplace application for classified listings. Facebook hosts F8 event to launch Facebook Platform. Facebook Platform launches with 65 developer partners and over 85 applications. Facebook reaches May Facebook launches Facebook Ads. 50 million active users. Facebook launches Facebook Platform for Mobile. Facebook and Microsoft expand advertising deal to cover international markets; Microsoft takes a $240 million equity stake in Facebook. November March February Facebook updates privacy controls to include Friend List privacy. Facebook launches in German. Facebook launches in October Spanish and French. Facebook launches Facebook Chat. Facebook releases Translation application to 21 additional languages. April 2008 July Facebook iPhone app launches. January Facebook co-sponsors Presidential Debates with ABC News. Facebook reaches Facebook reaches 2009 100 million 150 million active users. CNN Live/Facebook integration. active users. January August Facebook Connect becomes generally available. February December Facebook reaches 175 million active users. April / Facebook reaches Facebook joins OpenID bóard. September 200 million "Like" feature added. June active users. Facebook reaches Facebook launches Digital Sky Technologies makes a $200 million investment for preferred stock at a $10 billion valuation. 300 million Facebook May Usernames. active users. Facebook reaches 250 million Facebook acquires FriendFeed. active users. July Facebook reaches February 360 million August active users. Facebook reaches December August 400 million active users. Launch of Facebook Places. October December Introduction of new 2010 Gropus. Facebook reaches 608 million active users. Launch of the new profile. Facebook reaches Facebook 500 million Hyderabad opens. April active users. Launch of Facebook Stories application. Launch of Facebook Questions. President Barack 2011 Obama visits Facebook. Prineville Data Center September July opens. First official March Facebook Hacker Cup. Facebook reaches November 750 million Facebook reaches active users. Launch of video calling. July 845 million March active users. Launch of Facebook for iPad. Facebook reaches 900 million October 2012 active users. Facebook moves to a new home in Menlo Park, California. Facebook DC hosts its first Congressional Developer Hackathon. December Launch of Timeline apps. Facebook reaches January 1 billion active users. October Data compiled on 10/15/2012 by: Data sources: WEBSITE-MONITORING.COM www.facebook.com www.socialbakers.com www.wikipedia.org All the logos have been used only for information purposes and can be registered trademarks of their owners.