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901 Mn Monthly Users, And Other Facebook Trivia

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Founded
In 2004.

Founders
Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Mokovitz, Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin

Mission
To make the world more open and connected.

Fast Facts

  • 901 million monthly active users at the end of March 2012.
  • Approximately 80% of Facebook’s monthly active users are outside the U.S. and Canada.
  • 526 million daily active users on average in March 2012.
  • 488 million monthly active users who used Facebook mobile products in March 2012
  • More than 500 million mobile monthly active users as of April 20, 2012.
  • During March 2012, on average 398 million users were active with Facebook on at least six out of the last seven days.
  • More than 125 billion friend connections on Facebook at the end of March 2012.
  • On average more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook per day in the three months ended March 31, 2012.
  • An average of 3.2 billion Likes and Comments generated by Facebook users per day during the first quarter of 2012.
  • More than 42 million Pages with ten or more Likes at the end of March 2012.
  • Facebook is available in more than 70 languages.

Board Members

  • Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Facebook
  • Marc Andreessen, Co-founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
  • Jim Breyer, Partner, Accel Partners
  • Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company
  • Reed Hastings, Chairman and CEO, Netflix
  • Erskine Bowles, President Emeritus, the University of North Carolina
  • Peter Thiel, Partner, Founders Fund
Management
  • Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: Mark Zuckerberg
  • Chief Operating Officer: Sheryl Sandberg
  • Chief Financial Officer: David Ebersman

Offices

  • U.S. offices: Atlanta; Austin; Detroit; Chicago; Dallas; Los Angeles; Miami; New York; Seattle; Washington, DC; Prineville, Oregon.
  • International offices: Amsterdam; Auckland; Brussels; Dublin; Hamburg; Hong Kong; Hyderabad; London; Madrid; Milan; Paris; Selangor; Sao Paulo; Singapore; Stockholm; Sydney; Tokyo; Toronto.

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