Facebook is kicking up a storm right now, and really seems to be breaking into the mainstream with lots of non college/ University users joining up and the existing users becoming more and more locked in. With the launch of all the facebook platform tools allowing applications to be build on top of the site's architecture there's a good chance of facebook moving way beyond social networking to become a real technology behemoth like Google or Microsoft. If you're doing research on facebook or have to convince your boss its a big deal here's some facebook statistics for you:
- 25m users, growing 3% per week, which is 100,000 new users per day (up from 7.5m users in July 2007), projected to reach 50m by end of 2007
- The fastest growing demographic is the 25 and over age group
- 1% of all time spent on the internet is facebook
- 50% of registered users come back to the site every day.
- 60 billion page views per month, 50 pages per user every day
- 6th most trafficked site in the U.S
- 1 bn photos hosted on the site, 6m uploaded each deay, 70k photos served per second, making facebook the biggest photo sharing site on the web
- 1-2 m people are on facebook simultaneously at any one time
- $100m per year advertising deal with Microsoft
- Internal valuation of $8bn, based on projected revenues of $1bn p.a. by 2015
Sources: Facebook Company data, press reports, Kulveer
