Facebook’s amended US Securities & Exchange Commission documents filed on Monday revealed the social network is bigger than ever — 901m monthly active users, to be exact.
At this rate of acceleration (there were 845m active users just a couple weeks ago), Facebook will have 1bn monthly active users strong before you know it. The eight-year-old startup stated in an amended S1 filing that it sees around 526m daily active users and 488 monthly active users on mobile devices.
“We believe that we are at the forefront of enabling faster, easier and richer communication between people and that Facebook has become an integral part of many of our users’ daily lives,” the filing reads. “We have experienced rapid growth in the number of users and their engagement.”
The 901m mark was reached officially at the end of March 2012. This figure represents 33% year-on-year growth from the 680m monthly active users the social network had at the end of March 2011. Daily active users were up by 41%, with 372m daily active users posted in March 2011.
Other social stats show booming activity on the network itself: the company claims a whopping 125bn friend connections on Facebook as of 31 March 2012 and around 3,2bn “likes” and comments every single day during the first three months of 2012. — VentureBeat
