For the first time over a billion people used Facebook on a single day, according to company founder Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n
The “milestone” was reached on Monday, when “1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family”, he said in a post.<\/p>\n
Facebook has nearly 1.5 billion users who log in at least once a month, but this was the most in a single day.<\/p>\n
The company gained its billionth user in October 2012.<\/p>\n
It was founded in 2004 by Mr Zuckerberg while he was a Harvard student.<\/p>\n
In his post on Thursday, he predicted that Facebook’s reach would continue to grow.<\/p>\n
“This was the first time we reached this milestone, and it’s just the beginning of connecting the whole world,” Mr Zuckerberg wrote.<\/p>\n
In July, Facebook claimed that over half of the world’s online users visited the site at least once a month.<\/p>\n
It was only back in October 2012 when Facebook first announced it had one billion users using the site at least once a month – and now, just under three years later, the site has managed to pull in that many in a single day.<\/p>\n
The question is how can it continue to grow? Surely it will plateau at some point, right? Yes – but we’re a long way off that.<\/p>\n
I’ve just come back from Facebook’s headquarters in California to discuss some of the projects in the pipeline. On the wall, a map of the world highlighted countries with lots of Facebook users.<\/p>\n
Sure, the US, Europe and India are almost at peak Facebook. But there are huge gaps – Africa, much of Asia, some of Latin America. That’s where Facebook is focused on now.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n
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