Today is Facebook’s seventh birthday, and while we aren’t sure what the company will be doing to celebrate, we wouldn’t be surprised to see the company announce the 600 million user milestone or perhaps even more.
Last year the company surpassed 375 million users, meaning that the company has continued to grow at a rapid pace — although the rate of doubling has definitely slowed. Over the past year, Facebook has released a large number of new products including Groups, Places, Deals, and new messaging platform.
Facebook has also experienced increasing attention over the company’s public offering which is expected to take place in April of next year. With the company’s valuation surging beyond $50 billion, it appears as though the social behemoth is unstoppable.
The company continues to experience continued growth with advertising, hopefully bringing in over $3 billion to $4 billion in revenue this year. With a new ad product recently released and Credits prepared to become an integral component of the Facebook platform, there’s no doubt the company will see an increase in revenue.
It will be interesting to watch the company over the next year and see how it evolves as Facebook speeds toward the much anticipated initial public offering.
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Comment by Christopher — February 4, 2011 @ 11:41 am
Do you really think they'll go public and when?
Comment by @paulletourneau — February 4, 2011 @ 11:46 am
Lets look at this from an official perspective, which you don't have. I am in one of the biggest college networks on FB, and I've been there since the beginning. The network has grown by roughly 10,000 people a year, and has hit a wall at around 110,000 people. These are the only "people" I consider real profiles. The rest are nothing to me. Now add all the other college networks on there which have considerably les, and it robably comes out to 50-150 million REAL people. Back when it started the founding network had considerabyl less people than my network, and still does. That's hardly catching like "wildfire" as was described in a previous article, especially considering the sheer number of students and alumni for both universities.
Add in all the fake students, duplicate gaming,, business named profiles (which are against the rules) and spambots, and you get the rest. Spambot accounts can be had at 10,000 profiles a pop.
Comment by guest — February 4, 2011 @ 1:32 pm
@guest. That’s exactly right. I have always said they never account for fake profiles.
Comment by Jeremy — February 4, 2011 @ 9:56 pm
Jag visste ingetning fylla sjunde år nu som 6 millio användare,då säger jag GRATULERAR.
Comment by IDA LANG — February 5, 2011 @ 4:19 am
Jag visste ingetning fyllla facebook användare sjunde år som då säger jag gratulerar
Comment by IDA LANG — February 5, 2011 @ 4:21 am
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Comment by Benipal — February 5, 2011 @ 5:12 pm
Is there any way to find out when one signed up for Facebook? I'm curious how many years I've been there already…
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Comment by ray — April 28, 2011 @ 7:08 am
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