Facebook Welcomes 200 Millionth User, Wants To Know How Facebook Affected Your Life

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200 million: more than the entire population of Luxembourg?

That's a bit of an understatement, 200 million is about 400 times the population of Luxembourg. It is more than the population of all of Luxembourg's neighbors (France, Germany, and Belgium) combined. It is more than the population of Brazil or Pakistan. It is 2/3 of the population of the United States.

Facebook is about the size of the fifth largest country in the world. Comparing it to Luxembourg is pretty silly.

In the end, this demonstrates the $15 billion valuation the media proposed is not plausible. That would value current users at $75 each.

Sometime ago I read a thread linking to TC post that said Facebook was lowballing its user count and also containing a video of an FB guy being corrected by another guy behind camera when he said the user count was around 270-280M users.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/27/is-facebook-purposefull...

Total user accounts or active? And what is the threshold for considering an account to be 'active'?

The 200 million number is monthly active users. Being "active" to Facebook means interacting with Facebook at least once in the past 30 days. That means logging in to Facebook, logging in to a Connect site, using a Facebook mobile app, or using a desktop application with Facebook access.

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