Did You Know? Facebook Gets 10 New Users Every Second: Analysis
Facebook is growing at a whopping pace and the recent statists suggest that every second around 10 new profiles are created on Facebook. Mapping this over a period of day will mean .86 million new profiles every day! Today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his blog that Facebook now has 300 million users. Not only this, Facebook is now “Cash Flow Positive” which in layman terms mean that the company is generating more money than what it is burning.
I remember Mark Zuckerberg saying in an interview lately that he considers Facebook as another internet. Well…. TRUE (yes). That is where Facebook is heading.
Analysis:
Total Internet users: 1.67 billion.
Total Facebook users: 300 million.
I won’t project it for very long period of time because web 2.0 is very dynamic spaceand long predictions are doomed. Just consider it for a year (at current growth rate)-
Total Facebook users by will be Sep 2010 : 600 million
Which is almost 28% of internet users and some more! Hats of Mr. Zuckerberg.
With all this good news rolling around Facebook could come out with an IPO much before than what is being predicted.
Follow-Up
The Facebook Blog : 300 Users And On by Mark Zuckerberg
Guardian : How exactly is Facebook making money? by Bobbie Johnson
Silicon Alley Insider : Facebook: Cash-Flow Positive With 300 Million Users by Nicholas Carlson
blogs.telegraph.co.uk : Can Facebook fail? — Okay, I admit it. I was wrong by Andrew Keen
TechCrunch : Facebook Crosses 300 Million Users. Oh Yeah, And They Just Went Cash Flow Positive by MG Siegler
Mashable! : Facebook Now Has Over 300 Million Users by Ben Parr
image1 credit – mark-zuckerberg.net
image2 credit – insidefacebook.com
Impressive stats…! thnks for the analysis techdusts.
After 300 million users facebook started to make profits. I think there is some flaw in their business model…
Whenever I see a “x per second” stat I can’t help questioning what the actual dataset is like. Is the stat a large-scale mean (e.g. dividing up all the profiles created in a day by the number of seconds in that day)? Or is it possibly a median of the actual profile-per-second data (i.e. in some seconds there are 8 new profiles, in some there are 9, in most there are 10, in others there are more). Reminds me of a billboard I read once that claimed that a child is newly diagnosed with autism every [short-time-period], and as I drove further down the road I wondered which doctors were diagnosing autism at 3 AM (U.S. Eastern time zone).
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good question. It is median of the actual profiles per second. But it is worth nothing here that since facebook has active users in most of the time zones so you can expect this media to be more accurate than other cases. The aim here is to let the users know the how fast a facebook is growing.
10 users Every sec …seems to be not real !!
(Twitter: @ mayank25may )
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yes… it is not.. i have lied in the post
this is just the analysis made by Techdusts…
stop facebook publicity!!
(Twitter: @ mayank25may )
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lol… we also do publicity of other companies- Apple, google, twitter, MS, Palm etc… you want your company here?