Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared some big news today: the social network he led to become the world’s biggest social network has passed the 1 billion users milestone.

In a statement posted on the Facebook newsroom, Zuckerberg thanked all Facebook users for giving him and his “little” team “the honor of serving you”.

If you want to split hairs, Facebook says it reached 1 billion active monthly users on September 14 at 12:45 PM Pacific time.

The young CEO’s full statement:

“This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month.

If you’re reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you.

Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.

I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too.”

The Facebook CEO also shared some key data as the social network has reached more than 1 billion users.

Look after the break for the full content of Facebook fact sheet.

One billion – key metrics

Facebook reached 1 billion monthly active users on September 14 at 12:45 PM Pacific time.

Since Facebook launched, we’ve seen:

• Over 1.13 trillion likes since launch in February 2009
• 140.3 billion friend connections
• 219 billion photos uploaded
  • Data was pulled on 9/10/2012, and represents the total number of photos currently on this site – in other words, it excludes deleted photos. If we wanted to include all photos ever uploaded, the estimate we have is 265 billion. Photo uploading launched fall 2005.
• 17 billion location-tagged posts, including check-ins
  • Includes location-tagged posts as well as check-ins. Data was pulled on 9/10/2012, and represents total location-tagged posts and check-ins since launch of the product in August 2010
• 62.6 million songs have been played 22 billion times – that’s about 210,000 years of music.
  • Data was pulled on 9/11/2012, and represents song plays since the launch of music-listening applications in September 2011.

Characteristics of users joining the week Facebook hit 1 Billion

• The median age of the user is about 22
• The top five countries where people connected from at the time we reached this milestone were Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United States (NOTE: in alphabetical order)
• Facebook now has 600 million mobile users

 

Characteristics of users joining the week Facebook hit 500 Million users (July 2010)

• The median age of the user at that time was about 23
• The top five countries where people connected from at the time we reached this milestone were Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United States (NOTE: in alphabetical order)
• Users signing up at this time now have an average of 305 friends

 

Characteristics of users joining the week Facebook hit 100 Million (August 2008)

• The median age of the user at that time was about 26
• The top five countries where people connected from at the time we reached this milestone were Chile, France, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States (NOTE: in alphabetical order)
• The user signing up at this time now has an average of 334 friends

 

Characteristics of users joining the week Facebook hit 50 Million users (October 2007)

• The median age of the user signing up at this time was about 26
• The top five countries where people connected from at the time we reached this milestone were Australia, Canada, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States (NOTE: in alphabetical order)
• Users signing up at this time now have an average of 321 friends

 

Source: Facebook

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg image from kk+ on Flickr – (CC BY-NC-SA)

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