Facebook hits 500m

On the day Facebook reaches the 500 million user milestone, we compare the most popular social networks’ vital statistics.

• FaceBook was launched in February 2004. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on the site.
• An average user has 130 friends.
• There are over 900 million objects in total that Facebook users can interact with, such as community pages.
• The average Facebook user is connected 80 pages, groups and events.
• The average member creates 90 pieces of content each month.
• More than 30 billion pieces of content, like photos, web links and news stories, are shared each month.
• About 70 per cent of Facebook users are from outside of the US.
• It took five months for Facebook to attract an extra 100 million users, from 400 million to 500 million.
• Last January Faceb only had 150 million members.
• The site has yet to become the leading social network in Russia, China, Japan or Korea.
• Facebook was valued at $11.5 billion according to Sharespost’s March 2010 Index.

How it compares:

Twitter:

• Launched in 2006.
• Twitter has over 100 million registered users worldwide.
• Approximately sixty-five million tweets are sent each day.
• Over two billion tweets are now posted on Twitter per month.
• Approximately 1,000 tweets are posted a second.
• Over 15 billion tweets have been posted in total.
• More than 135,000 new people are registering on the site per day.
• Twitter was valued at $1 billion (£680 million) at its last round of funding in September 2009.

Foursquare:

• Launched in 2009.
• Foursquare has over 2 million registered users.
• It took 12 months to acquire its first million members and only three months to sign up the next million users.
• The site, which allows users to share their location with friends by ‘checking-in’ at bars, has hit 100 million ‘check-ins’.
• Since February 2010, it has been registering more than one million ‘check-ins’ a week.
• Foursquare was valued at $95 million (£62 million) post a recent $20 million cash investment

MySpace:

• Launched in 2003.
• At its peak had more than 100 million global users.
• Its users have been rapidly declining since the rise of Facebook in 2008.
• Was bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for $580 million (£351 million) in 2005.
• Difficult to value. Last year, Henry Blodget, former Wall Street darling, said in his blog that “MySpace might actually be worth next to nothing”.

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