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Facebook User #41

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31 pointsErikAugust31 comments

What's the importance? And why is this on the front page?

maybe its just funky or nerdy... or both

On a serious note: Is this the list of facebook employees?

No. Just Facebook profile ids, which happen to start at 4 (Zuck). I can only assume that it took him three tries to get the account creation code right. :)

All objects accessible by the Graph API have numeric IDs. The old mysql ids for users were grandfathered in.

You can also see that Jack took 11 tries:

http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?user_id=12

I love that the name of the name/value pair for handle is actually "screen_name". That seems pretty left over from the AOL days...

The original Harvard users are in the first 10k or so. After that it was somewhat partitioned by launching schools until they opened it all up. You can see your own id using your user name in the API:

http://graph.facebook.com/spullara — 2410418

I think the 2,400,000s were Northwestern which is the alumni address I used to sign up. 2,500,000s were UCLA. You pretty easily map it out by grabbing them and looking at what schools people attended.

http://graph.facebook.com/spullara/photos

if only I had the token :P

Zuck is id #4, for those about to go spelunking. ;)

damn, you beat me to it :P

Makes me wonder...who are IDs 1-3?

Probably deleted test accounts.

none, its possible that each person is given a code, and after their account has been deleted or hidden, it simply returns the certain error

or 1-3 is admin accounts?

Given the way it would have been originally coded, probably 3 tries before there were no bugs in mapping the input to the db.

http://graph.facebook.com/2 - Mark Zuckerberg (back when you could tag people, but they fixed this) http://graph.facebook.com/4 - Public Mark Zuckerberg page :P

I'm surprised it's so high, actually. Other ground-floor people like Chris Hughes have much lower IDs.

Right. I was sifting through the Graph a few days ago and remembered back to the movie where supposedly Eduardo is there the moment they go live - and creates an account.

But of course, pointing out inaccuracies in dramatizations is not novel but you have to have a little fun on Saturday night.

The real name of facebook profile Soleio Soleio is Soleio Cuervo it's not a fake account and knew early facebook founders www.businessinsider.com/the-first-20-people-to-sign-up-for-facebook-2011-5?op=1

Why is Chris putnam user # 13 , makes no sense as he joined facebook much later. http://graph.facebook.com/13

To get your id just type http://graph.facebook.com/<your_account_name>;

http://graph.facebook.com/4 (Zuck)- Mark Zukerberg

just paste the link http://graph.facebook.com/4 on your FB status and see.....

Does anyone know why it stops at 6999?

It doesn't. (eg. http://graph.facebook.com/20000)

Perhaps some of the user id's belong to deleted accounts?

They reserved id ranges based on where the user was going to university. I guess because they were considering (or even doing?) sharding, so this was an easy way to avoid id collisions.

Sean Parker is # 207,996

http://graph.facebook.com/11

I'm pretty sure that "Soleio Soleio" is not his real full name.

Facebook should definitely ban this account.

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