Number of users of Facebook has now passed 500 million. The distribution means that each Fourteenth person on the planet is a registered user.
If Facebook were a country, it would have been the world's third largest, according to variables such as China and India.
The six-year-old social web service, which was started in a student room at Harvard University to celebrate Wednesday night. Founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the news in a blog post Wednesday evening. At the same time he launched a campaign where users can share experiences about how this has changed their lives.
26-year-old Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook together with fellow student from Harvard. Today he is the world's youngest billionaire U.S. dollars.
- Our goal is to make world more open and more connected, "he said.
The growth of Facebook is second to none. Last summer, they had secured a 250 million users, while the number has increased by 100 million just since February.
Much more
The next target of Facebook is to break the magic threshold of one billion users, a milestone probably only Google is able to cope with.
If Facebook is maintaining its current growth rate can online service reach this goal as early as next year, said the newspaper LA Times.
- We love to dream big here, but first we will take one day or two to celebrate half a billion users, before we start thinking about larger numbers, "said Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of the founder that govern the marketing in the company, said.
