Facebook breaks through 250 million users

 

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Posted on 16 Jul 2009 at 10:20

There are now more than 250 million users connecting with each other on Facebook, said founder Mark Zuckerberg in a statement.

The news comes just three months after the social network broke through the 200 million barrier and 11 months after the site hit 100 million users.

"The rapid pace of our growth is humbling and exciting for us," said Zuckerberg, "and it affirms that people everywhere are realising the power of staying connected to everything they care about on Facebook."

Zuckerberg isn't content though and says that the best is still to come:

"Each person who joins makes Facebook better by adding a presence to the site that friends and family can connect with and feel closer to. For us, growing to 250 million users isn't just an impressive number; it is a mark of how many personal connections all of you have made, and how far we at Facebook have to go to extend the power of connection to the billions of people around the world.

"So today as we celebrate our 250 millionth user, we are also continuing to develop Facebook to serve as many people in the world in the most effective way possible. This means reaching out to everyone across the world and making products that serve all of you, wherever you are - whether through Facebook Connect, new mobile products and the other things we are building. We're grateful to have you all with us, and we look forward to helping connect the next quarter billion people on Facebook."

More interesting than the raw number of users Facebook serves today is the rate at which it is acquiring new users. According to Inside Facebook, the social network has been adding between 700,000 and 750,000 users a day for the past few weeks.

As part of reaching this landmark, Facebook updated its statistics page, which now says that more than 120 million users log into their Facebook account at least once a day and more than 30 million update their statuses at least once each day.

Author: Tim Smalley