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Facebook Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Active Users

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday that Facebook has crossed one billion monthly active users, up from 955 million monthly active users as of June 2012. Zuckerberg said that this milestone was reached on September 14 at 12.45pm Pacific Time (1.15 am India Standard time on September 15). While Zuckerberg didn't reveal any breakdown of the users across geographies, Facebook had previously stated that India has 59 million monthly active users as of June 30, 2012. Along with this announcement, Facebook also released (pdf) a fact sheet which offered some interesting statistics about the company. The company claims to have 600 million monthly active mobile users, up from 543 million monthly active mobile users in June 2012. It also claims to have generated over 1.13 trillion likes since February 2009, seen 140.3 billion friend connections and uploaded 219 billion photos (excluding deleted photos), as of September 10, 2012. The company noted that if the deleted photos are included, then the number goes up to an estimated 265 billion photos. In addition, Facebook also claims to have seen 17 billion location-tagged posts (including check-ins) since the product launch in August 2010 till September 2012 and 62.6 million songs have been played 22 billion times since the launch of music-playing apps on Facebook in September 2011 till September 2012. The company stated that the top five countries for the social network in alphabetical order are - Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States and the average age of a Facebook user is about 22.…

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