Did you know that Facebook’s user base grows by eight people per second, or 7,246 people every 15 minutes?

Did you know that Facebook has 2.01 billion monthly active users around the world as of June 30,
2017?

Did you know that Facebook estimates that it has an average of 1.32 billion daily active users?

Did you know that according to Pew Research national survey, 79% of adult Internet users used Facebook as of April 2016?

Did you know that Facebook is blocked in North Korea and most of China?

Did you know that Al Pacino was the first “face” on Facebook?

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Peter Thiel,

Did you know Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, was the first major investor to back Facebook?

Did you know that Thiel, a luminary in the startup and venture capital worlds, saw the site’s potential and invested $500,000 into the young company in 2004?

Sean Parker

Did you know that Thiel later sold his stake in the company for more than $1 billion?

Did you know that Sean Parker, co-founder of now-defunct music sharing site Napster, originally acquired the facebook.com domain name for $200,000?

Did you know that Parker was the driving force in the renaming of the site, and was highly influential as the site exploded in popularity?

Did you know that a peer-to-peer file-sharing system called Wirehog was once a core function of Facebook?

Did you know that Mark Zuckerberg introduced the P2P file-sharing system when Thefacebook.com reached approximately

Wirehog

500,000 users, and once believed it would become a central component of the site. Wirehog was retired over fears of potential legal repercussions of copyright infringement in 2006?

Did you know that Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colorblindness?

Did you know that is why Facebook’s primary color scheme is blue – although it certainly doesn’t hurt that blue?

Did you know that Facebook’s ‘Like’ button used to be the ‘Awesome’ button?

Did you know that Facebook engineer Andrew Bosworth said that he and other engineers were

Andrew Bosworth

enthusiastic about the “Awesome” button, but that the idea was ultimately vetoed by Zuckerberg in 2007?

Did you know that the site eventually settled on the “Like” button, a decision that Bosworth said was met with a decidedly lukewarm reception?

Did you know that Facebook stores approximately 300 PETABYTES of user data on its servers?

Did you know that there are 1 million gigabytes in a petabyte?

facebook growth

Did you know that the entire written works of humankind, in every known language (including Latin and other historical languages) from the dawn of recorded history, would occupy approximately 50 petabytes. Think about that for a minute?

Did you know that in 2014, the alleged global economic impact of Facebook was approximately $227 billion?

Did you know that  Facebook’s user base grows by eight people per second, or 7,246 people every 15 minutes?

Did you know that in 2015, Facebook boasted 22% of WORLDWIDE mobile Internet advertising revenue?

Did you know that means almost one-quarter of all advertising revenue generated from mobile Internet ads in a single year went to Facebook?

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Did you know that adult Facebook users in the United States spend 68% of their mobile device time using apps?

Did you know that there were only approximately 8,400 app advertisers on Facebook in 2013 – and these 8,400 advertisers drove more than 145 million app installs in that year alone?

Did you know that there are now more than 2 million active advertisers on Facebook?

Did you know that the popularity, impact, and cost-effectiveness of Facebook ads has made the site one of the most popular online advertising platforms in the world, and its upward trajectory seems likely to continue?

Did you know that Facebook ads using custom audience targeting had conversion rates 387% higher than ads only using demographic targeting?

14. The Facebook advertising format with the lowest cost-per-click is the Sponsored Page Action Story format, which has an average CPC of just $0.11. The ad format with the highest CPC is the Sponsored App Action Story, which has an average CPC of $0.58. (source)

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Did you know that Facebook advertising format with the highest click-through rate is the Sponsored Place Check-In Story, which has an average CTR of 3.2%?


Did you know that Facebook earns an average of $5.85 for every Facebook user in the United States and Canada?

Did you know that these two countries also have among the highest monthly active users of any country in the world, making North America a vitally important market for Facebook?

Did you know that on every minute of downtime outage costs Facebook approximately $24,420?

Did you know that the “prolonged” outage that lasted for 19 minutes in August 2014 cost the company almost $427,000?

Did you know that posts published between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. EST receive approximately 88% more interactions on average than posts published at other times of the day?

Did you know that also, ending posts with a question lifts interactions with those posts by an average of 162%?

Did you know that in September 2014, Facebook users watched a collective 1 billion videos per day?

Did you know that today, that figure is more than 4 billion – and 75% of these video views occur on mobile devices?

Did you know that Videos are the most-shared content type on Facebook?

Did you know that on average, videos receive 89.5 shares per video, significantly higher share counts than photos or text-based posts?

Did you know that posting just once or twice per day on Facebook yields an average of 40% more engagement than posting three or more times per day?

Did you know that there are 20,658 employees at Facebook, and it is headquartered in Menlo Park, California?

Did you know that on February 4, 2004 - "The Facebook" is launched by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin at Harvard University?

Did you know that on June 2004 - The company moves to Palo Alto, California?

Did you know that on December 2004 - One million users are active on the site?

Did you know that on September 20, 2005 - The company drops "the" from the name and becomes Facebook?

Did you know that on December 2005 - The number of Facebook users reaches six million?

Did you know that on July 2007 - Former Harvard classmates Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss sue Zuckerberg, alleging that he stole the idea for Facebook from them?

Did you know that on October 2007 - Microsoft buys a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million?

Did you know that on January 5, 2008 - ABC News and Facebook co-sponsor a debate between presidential hopefuls?

Sheryl Sandberg

Did you know that on March 2008 - Facebook hires Sheryl Sandberg to be the company's chief
operating officer?

Did you know that on2008 - The Winklevosses settle their suit with Facebook for $65 million?

Did you know that on 2009 - Facebook settles a lawsuit with founder Eduardo Saverin out of court?

Did you know that on February 9, 2009 - Facebook introduces the "Like" button?

Did you know that on June 2009 - Facebook becomes the number one social network in the United States, surpassing MySpace?

The Social Network

Did you know that on October 2010 - The movie "The Social Network, " a fictionalized account of the start of Facebook, is released.

Did you know that on November 2011 - Facebook settles charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that it engaged in deceptive practices concerning users' privacy?

Did you know that on February 1, 2012 - Facebook files the paperwork for its initial public offering?

Did you know that on April 9, 2012 - Photo sharing site Instagram is purchased for $1 billion?

Did you know that on May 18, 2012 - The initial public offering of Facebook stock takes place?

Did you know that on October 2012 - Facebook reaches one billion active monthly users?

Did you know that on February 19, 2014 - Facebook announces that it is purchasing mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion?

Did you know that on March 25, 2014 - Facebook announces that it is purchasing virtual reality company Oculus VR, Inc. for $2 billion?

Did you know that on June 23, 2015 - Facebook stock rises 3% to reach an all time high. The company's market value is close to $245 billion, making it worth more than WalMart, a $235 billion company?

going public

Did you know that on August 27, 2015 - Facebook hits a milestone when 1 billion users log in to the social network in a single day?

Did you know that on April 27, 2016 - Facebook shares rise almost 9% to hit an all-time high of more than $118 after the company reports first-quarter profit almost tripled and sales jumped 52%. There are now 1.65 billion people using Facebook each month, up from 1.59 billion at the end of last year?

Did you know that on September 7, 2017 - Facebook reveals that it sold about $100,000 worth of ads during the 2016 presidential election cycle from inauthentic accounts and pages "likely operated out of Russia?"

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