Facebook Breaks 1bn Users in a Day
- Friday, August 28th, 2015
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Facebook passed 1bn users in a single day for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed in, appropriately enough, a post on Facebook.
“On Monday, one in seven people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family,” Zuckerberg wrote in the post. “When we talk about our financials, we use average numbers, but this is different.”
In the companys latest results, it reported an average of 968m daily active users during Q2 2015, 844m of whom were on mobile. Presuming the proportion is consistent, that means around 872m people accessed Facebook from a mobile device on Monday. 
“This was the first time we reached this milestone, and its just the beginning of connecting the whole world,” wrote Zuckerberg, a reference to the companys ongoing efforts with Internet.org, which recently marked its first anniversary.
