Facebook Surpasses 175 Million Users, Continuing to Grow by 600k Users/Day

Facebook has hit the 175,000,000 active user mark, just 5 weeks after it hit 150 million users in January. At this rate, Facebook has been growing by well over 600,000 users per day over the last several weeks, continuing the company’s torrid growth pace.

If Facebook were a country, it would now be the 6th most populous in the world.

Where is all the growth coming from? As we’ve been tracking closely, Facebook has been growing very rapidly amongst women and people over 30 in the US, and it has been absolutely

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