Washington, Oct 4, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Social media company
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it reached the 1 billion active monthly
users threshold last month, and is up more than 50 million users since
June.
Facebook, based in Menlo Park, California, hit the 1
billion milestone on Sept 14 at 12:45pm Pacific time, the company said
on its website. It added that it had 600 million mobile users, according
to a fact sheet posted on its website
The 1 billion user
count is up from the end of June, when it had 955 million active monthly
users. The company also said it has seen 1.13 trillion "likes," or
endorsements by users, since the company launched the feature in
February 2009.
Many of the ad campaigns that companies conduct on Facebook are designed to garner likes.
It
said 219 billion photos were uploaded as of September. Excluding
deleted photos, about 265 billion photos have been uploaded since 2005.
About 17 billion location-tagged posts were made on the
website, Facebook said, and 62.6 million songs have been played 22
billion times since September, 2011.
The median age of a
Facebook user was 22, it said, and the top five user countries were
Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States.
The
new data came a day after the company said it was letting US users pay a
fee to boost the visibility of their postings - its latest effort to
look beyond advertising for revenue.
Advertising accounted for roughly 84 percent of the total revenue in the second quarter.
With
Facebook's revenue growth rate slowing sharply in recent quarters,
analysts and investors believe it needs to find new ways to make money.
Shares of Facebook rose 2.1 percent to $22.27 in premarket trading on Thursday. The stock made its public debut at $38 in May.
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