Meanwhile, Instagram - which Facebook also owns - topped 700 million users in April and reached its own milestone earlier this month: 250 million daily active users on Instagram stories.īy comparison, Twitter had 328 million monthly users by the end of the first quarter of 2017. To increase penetration rates in developing nations, Facebook has rolled out pared-down versions of its apps that use less data, and it has been developing solar-powered drones to extend internet connectivity around the planet. Three years ago, those regions accounted for some 38 per cent of users, compared with about 30 per cent in the first quarter of this year. Penetration in developing nationsįacebook’s growth has increasingly come from outside the US, Canada and Europe. Google’s email service, Gmail, too has joined the club, and now boasts over a billion active users. The number of advertisers topped five million in April, the company said. WhatsApp isn’t the only one to cross one billion active users. The company, which Zuckerberg started in 2004 in his college dormitory room, uses its huge size advantage to lure advertisers, offering them highly targeted marketing capabilities based on its data about users. It does not include people who use the Instagram or WhatsApp networks but not Facebook.įacebook had 1.94 billion people using its service monthly as of March 31, an increase of 17 per cent from a year earlier. It represents more than a quarter of the world’s 7.5 billion people.įacebook defines a monthly active user as a registered user who logged in and visited the social media platform through its website or a mobile device in the past 30 days. Facebook on Thursday said that its Messenger service has crossed 1.2 billion monthly active users milestone with the addition of about 200 million new users.
The user base is bigger than the population of any single country, and of six of the seven continents. “It’s an honour to be on this journey with you,” said Mark Zuckerberg, co- founder and chief executive said in a Facebook post. Facebook has hit a new milestone, with more than two billion monthly active users now on the social network less than five years after hitting the one billion mark, the company has said.
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