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The numbers, from Facebook themselves

Categories: Facebook Strategy, Social Networking, Web UsagePosted on August 17th, 2007

Good friend and former mentor Shel Israel emailed Facebook’s corporate communications group to get some accurate numbers. About time, as I’ve seen contradictions in stats (and you know I’m obsessive about numbers). Here’s what he uncovered:

* Over 150,000 registrants daily. That’s 1 million a week since January.
* 35 million users today. Of course that number will be off a million one week from today.
* Half user are outside college. That number was zero in Sept. 2006.
* 0ver 40 billion page views in May 2007
* Average visitor stays 20 minutes
* Most growth is among people over age 25.
* 47,000 Facebook groups.
* #1 photo sharing app on the web. 2.7 billion photos on site.
* More than 2000 applications. The Top 10 are: Top Friends, Video, Graffiti, MyQuestions, iLike, FreeGifts, X Me, Superpoke!, Fortune Cookie & Horoscopes. The smallest of these has over 4.5 million users.

Thanks Shel, that’s helpful, now if I could just keep you from “biting” me.

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25 Responses to “The numbers, from Facebook themselves”

  1. Some amazing numbers there. I’m especially surprised by the non-college users. Thanks for hunting this down.



    2. Posted by AdamD on August 17th, 2007 at 10:58 pm

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    3. Posted by Simplicity Rules » Scaling Facebook on August 17th, 2007 at 11:10 pm

  3. Click on the “web usage” category on my right nav to find other details.

    BTW, I’d like to add that Shel is still a teacher to me, and I always appreciate his advice –just to be clear.



    4. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on August 18th, 2007 at 3:31 am

  4. [...] I keep falling deeper into Facebook!  I’m not the only one (thanks Jeremiah/Shel for the data) having this kind of affair.  This time I fell back to my college music days and found a wonderful [...]



    5. Posted by Fade Into You — Mesmerizing Mazzy Star Flashback on Facebook « Movin’ Ahead on August 18th, 2007 at 7:26 pm

  5. [...] Not long ago I saw a question about utilizing MySpace for promoting a website.  The trend is that MySpace is out & Facebook is in.  These statistics are from Jeremiah O’s blog: [...]



    6. Posted by Digital Scrapbooking Info » Facebook is in on August 18th, 2007 at 9:53 pm

  6. I suspect the overlap with MySpace is even greater now than when this chart was done. all it proves to me is that people are promiscuous v socnets and jump as fashions change (about every 2 years it seems to me).



    7. Posted by alan p on August 19th, 2007 at 8:13 am

  7. Facebook facts…

    If you’re still trying to figure out the whole Facebook thing, then here’s a cheatsheet: * Over 150,000 registrants daily. That’s 1 million a week since January.* 35 million users today. Of course that number will be off a……



    8. Posted by Random Mumblings on August 19th, 2007 at 8:49 am

  8. Wikipedia …

    It would appear that interested parties have been fiddling with Wikipedia entries. What is most surprising is that anyone is surprised. This was surely predictably. Surely?

    Or is everyone so in love with Social Media that they have forgotten about …



    9. Posted by broadstuff on August 19th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

  9. Broadstuff

    what’s this have to do with facebook? I’ve got another post above on the battle taking place on Wikipedia.



    10. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on August 19th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

  10. [...] So does Facebook itself. According to the company, the platform has got 150,000 new registrations per day, which translates into 1 Million a week since January. The biggest growth is with users over 25 (which is good news for businesses!) and there are over 47,000 groups on Facebook. For more numbers, see Jeremiah Owyang’s post. [...]



    11. Posted by Still growing! « loudhail on August 19th, 2007 at 8:48 pm

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    12. Posted by links for 2007-08-20 « Rost in de branding on August 20th, 2007 at 10:25 am

  12. [...] 9% of the total survey sample, which may sound low, but MySpace has well over 100 million users and Facebook boasts 35 million (and growing by approx. 1 million/wk), so a 9% win-over rate is a pretty health showing! (I realize [...]



    13. Posted by andrew c. » The e-President? on August 20th, 2007 at 7:01 pm

  13. Wow… abolutly amazing… 150.000 new users per day.



    14. Posted by Tobias on August 22nd, 2007 at 1:11 am

  14. [...] to Jeremiah for asking Facebook about these [...]



    15. Posted by Facebook Zahlen | Webanalyse & SEO - News on August 22nd, 2007 at 1:22 am

  15. [...] im fischmarkt-blog über mögliche Zukunftsstrategien oder über facebook, wie z.B. im web-strategist-blog über aktuelle Statistiken. Aber nicht nur die Studenten und Blogger haben diese Social [...]



    16. Posted by www.best-practice-business.de/blog » Geschäftsidee: Kostenlose Notizblöcke mit Werbeaufschrift an Studenten verteilen on August 22nd, 2007 at 2:53 am

  16. [...] http://www.web-strategist.com [...]



    17. Posted by Facebook Zahlen, wow » Beitrag » wasdassoll.de on August 22nd, 2007 at 3:29 am

  17. [...] Jeremiah bzw. ein Freund von Ihm mal offizielle Zahlen von Facebook herausgefunden und in seinem Blog [...]



    18. Posted by Fakten, Fakten, Fakten « Startupstarters on August 22nd, 2007 at 4:29 am

  18. [...] (via here) For your bookmarks: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]



    19. Posted by Facebook in numbers at Web Jungle on August 22nd, 2007 at 4:49 am

  19. [...] -φυσικά- για το Facebook. Η εξάπλωσή του είναι τρομακτική (150.000 νέα μέλη κάθε μέρα που περνάει!) και όλοι προσπαθούν να διακρίνουν τις αιτίες αυτής [...]



    20. Posted by NYLON » Archive » Γιατί πάει τόσο καλά το Facebook? on August 24th, 2007 at 8:27 am

  20. Facebook - meine ersten Erfahrungen…

    Öfters habe ich von Facebook gelesen, einen weiteres Social Network wollte ich mir aber nicht antun. Nach einer freundlichen Einladung und Hinweisen einige Webbekannter, dass sie nun beigetreten sind, habe ich mich selbst breitgeschlagen und registr…



    21. Posted by Nur ein Blog on August 25th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

  21. [...] are some facts and figures: Current users worldwide: 24 million, 150.000 new sign-ups each day! Market share of visits to Facebook.com increased by 134% from Sept 07 compared to Sept [...]



    22. Posted by Facebook — Is your face there, too? on October 30th, 2007 at 7:39 am

  22. StudiVZ goes Facebook!…

    Wie eben angekündigt, werde ich das StudiVZ in 2 Tagen definitiv verlassen. Ich hatte kürzlich noch über 100 Freunde, aktuell noch 92. Und die Zahl schrumpft zunehmend.
    Nach mehreren Absprachen lege ich euch hiermit wärmstens das Facebook ans Herz….



    23. Posted by tobiwei.de | Blog on January 6th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

  23. does anyone knows if there is any other information about this subject in other languages?



    24. Posted by Dil Okulu on April 2nd, 2008 at 5:47 pm

  24. Incredible numbers, but it isn’t amazing to me anymore, since facebook is well known among anyone throughout the world.



    25. Posted by Dil egitimi on June 4th, 2009 at 5:08 am

  25. I agree with dil egitimi, Facebook is out there.



    26. Posted by Amerika Vizesi on July 1st, 2009 at 4:20 am

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