New numbers on Facebook, Platform growth

Facebook released some new statistics today on overall growth, user demographics and engagement, international growth, and the Facebook Platform. Some notable numbers:

  • Facebook now has more than 42 million active users (double the number one year ago when it opened up registration and growing at more than 200,000 per day since January)
  • More than half of Facebook users are outside of college (85 percent of US college students still use Facebook)
  • More than half of active users return daily (users spend an average of 20 minutes on the site per day)

  • Facebook is the top photo sharing application on the Web
  • There are more than 6 million active user groups on the site
  • More than 80% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on the Facebook Platform

It’s quite impressive that 80%, or over 33 million, of Facebook members have installed a third-party Platform application.

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