On the day Facebook reaches the 500 million user milestone, we compare the most popular social networks' vital statistics. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on the site.
An average user has 130 friends. There are over 900 million objects in total that Facebook users can interact with, such as community pages. The average Facebook user is connected 80 pages, groups and events. The average member creates 90 pieces of content each month.
More than 30 billion pieces of content, like photos, web links and news stories, are shared each month. About 70 per cent of Facebook users are from outside of the US. It took five months for Facebook to attract an extra 100 million users, from 400 million to 500 million.
Last January Faceb only had 150 million members. The site has yet to become the leading social network in Russia, China, Japan or Korea. Facebook was valued at $11.5 billion according to Sharespost’s March 2010 Index.
How it compares:
Twitter:
Launched in 2006.
Twitter has over 100 million registered users worldwide.
Approximately sixty-five million tweets are sent each day.
Over two billion tweets are now posted on Twitter per month.
Approximately 1,000 tweets are posted a second.
Over 15 billion tweets have been posted in total.
More than 135,000 new people are registering on the site per day.
Twitter was valued at $1 billion (£680 million) at its last round of funding in September 2009.
Foursquare:
Launched in 2009.
Foursquare has over 2 million registered users.
It took 12 months to acquire its first million members and only three months to sign up the next million users.
The site, which allows users to share their location with friends by ‘checking-in’ at bars, has hit 100 million ‘check-ins’.
Since February 2010, it has been registering more than one million ‘check-ins’ a week.
Foursquare was valued at $95 million (£62 million) post a recent $20 million cash investment
MySpace:
Launched in 2003.
At its peak had more than 100 million global users.
Its users have been rapidly declining since the rise of Facebook in 2008.
Was bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for $580 million (£351 million) in 2005.
Difficult to value. Last year, Henry Blodget, former Wall Street darling, said in his blog that “MySpace might actually be worth next to nothing”.
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