Social Media Giant Facebook get 1 Billion users within August!!

1 Billion User Facebook Account

A giant could be seen within August with 1 billion users in social media platform. Here you can see a clear statistics of Facebook how it grew numbers year by years.

Lots of attention and debate on the growth of Google+ this week. It’s a good time to revisit the figures for that other social network you might have heard of, Facebook. It increased users by 37% to 800 million last year, and brands like Coca-Cola and Disney have millions of fans who follow them on Facebook like pages.

Gathering Stats

These stats and more were in brief information into an infographic from SocialBakers: according to them, “Facebook grew 7 users per second all of 2011”.

According to a study by iCrossing – Digital Marketing Agency in the UK, they have estimated the number of continued growth of Facebook user numbers. They stated,” Facebook will reach 1 billion users by August31, 2012”.

Do you want to track these types of statistics directly? All Facebook has an excellent Facebook Page Leaderboard for tracking the most popular pages (Twitter Counter has a similar Top100 page for Twitter accounts).

This will obviously be a huge milestone for Facebook. Many western countries for example USA, UK, Australia & Canada whose have about half their population already on Facebook – meaning the new growth will now more than likely come from developing countries which are quite a lot.

As for Facebook growth, it maintains a statistics page with the latest active user figures it reports, and it issues updates on the Facebook Blog. Here’s a timeline of their announcements:

• August 26, 2008: 100 million
• January 7, 2009: 150 million
• April 8, 2009: 200 million
• July 15, 2009: 250 million
• September 15, 2009: 300 million
• December 1, 2009: 350 million
• February 4, 2009: 400 million
• July 21, 2010: 550 million
• July 6, 2011, 800 million
• Aug. 31, 2012: 1 billion (announced during F8 conference)

Keep in mind it’s difficult to compare Facebook figures to Google+ figures, since Facebook reports “active users,” while Google+ does not. These articles have more about that.

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