does somebody live in that cubicle behind him?
i see:
- a lava lamp
- a plant
- a new macbook
- extra clothes
- bottle of water

PS. doesnt everyone remotely follow facebook unless we actually read news about them from inside their office?

Impressive .. but still don’t get it

Will there be cookies and pie?

it’s active users, not registered users

What a crazy thing to accomplish. The staggering number of users is definitely what the internet is all about these days and it just amazes me how he got some many people to be in 1 place on the internet.

Facebook is obviously the future and present of social networking and maybe the internet in general. It blows me away that he was able to develop such a powerful software to manage that many people in such a clean simple way.

Mad props to everyone involved in Facebook.

Well he is going to be on ABC News to night and this is one of the things he is going to address a long with the Facebook image.

Don’t get it.

What i get it thou is that FB is a webpage hosting company with no real business model, but lots of phony pr and articles. I guess this is what most VC backed companies are good at. FB has raised $860M in financing which means no employee including Mark at FB makes any money unless they sell themselves for more than $2.5B (liquidation pref).

Zuckerberg says THANKS! to 500 Million dumb fu*ks!

NO way, I have 5 accounts. How many do others have?

Big number but still a farce. Im bored with FB, use it less and less. I cannot be alone.

Will they peak at 500m ?

Does this also include all the business accounts too? Corporations are people too!

“Thanks….dumb fucks”

And how many of those 500 meeellion are inactive accounts?

How many of those 500 million are actually people? My fraternity is a profile, my friend’s business is a profile. Technically you are supposed to create “fan pages” for these, but many people just make accounts.

Wait! He doesn’t even “say” it! He just wrote it on a piece of paper with a blue marker.

500 Million users that can’t access their cookies, thanks to another undocumented/unannounced change developers are dealing with today.

“No real business model”? Better do your homework first, Facebook has positive cashflow since autumn 2009.

Impressive, but it would be interesting to know how many of the 500 million users actually logged back in after signing up because their friends and friends’ mamas told them to “Get on Facebook”.

See the ‘Twitter Data Analysis: An Investor’s Perspective from the techcrunch archives.
38% of registered Twitter users have never sent a SINGLE TWEET!

Are there similar stats for number or percentage of ACTIVE Facebook users?

Lol, what are you JAB, Skynet?

It would be great if they celebrated by just giving a massive 500 million group poking.

Wait, I think twitter was supposed to be above 1Billion by now ….

Positive Cash Flow? Really? How much? Can you elaborate? Last i heard they were making $350M revenue with 350M users which is $1/user. This is not a workable business model. This ship will crash real soon now. Go run for cover.

None, that’s 500 million active accounts.
I seem to remember they count active as logged in in the last 30 days.

I think they definately have a higher percentage than other social networks. Either way, even if the real people are ~ 300 M, it’s an unprecedented feat

I get it, and it’s still impressive

@Jann – Yup, 500 million dumb fucks out there. These FB addicts are stupid, keep throwing their info @ them.

I’m sure it is just me, but I hate it when people just say “thanks”. Really, is it that hard to say “Thank you.”? It is just a few extra letters.

example:
Here is a bunch of work, thanks.

dick + punch = you get a dick punch… thanks

“No way, I have 5 accounts….”

followed by

“…I’m bored with FB, use it less and less…”

Thank you Captain Contradiction.

Im pissed that your not sharing, whatever it is that your smoking!

obviously you’re a simpleton. Let me guess you’re a Repubican too… These things are not linear but that would take creativity and thought…something the avg. Republican has none of…

That must be awesome for the guy Zuck signed 86% of the company to in 2004.

Nothing wrong with making your workspace feel cosy – when you are there for a third of the day !

Also note that 80% of these FB user accounts are from India. These users will never buy anything from any advertizer on FB. So FB has a real problem here. Also i heard the same, $1/user revenue. This is not good.

Not a contradiction, somedude.

I have 2 accounts, one I created before I wanted to join FB to check out information about my peers in college, and one I created for myself but never update.

I was bored with FB almost immediately after joining.

Interesting thought… I wonder how many people are like BobSled and I… If all the people that have accounts and aren’t using them delete (not deactivate… there is a difference) their accounts, how far would FB fall overnight… Too bad people aren’t motivated enough to see.

Facebook is a GREAT tool for those in business. I am living proof of that. Haaaail to Facebook!

Big Milestone! for any private Social Company to get such big exposure hats off to the creative team of Faceboom for make it happen :P

Impressive, I wonder though where the next 500 million are gonna come from, everybody is on facebook already!

Maybe i did the math wrong, but if these numbers are accurate , then 7% of the World’s population is on facebook. Considering duplicate accounts and profiles dedicated to companies and institutions, I would dare to push it down to 5%. But that is still quite a feat.

So it DOES count the elderly who log in once, click ‘keep me signed in’ then die?

ZUCK”S TO DO LIST

1) IPO
2) Get paid
3)Buy chin

I get it and still don’t care.

Impossible to do an IPO when the company is making $1/user. This will collapse in the near future. VC’s are hyping the DOT COM bubble all over again. Take your money and run before this sh** collapses.

Members, is that what he’s calling them now?

I am writing a comment on TechCrunch. It is ill-formed, vague, and worthless. Come visit my blog!

Agreed…I was really just trying to use something to kick off my sweeet chin joke.

Yes, it is just you. You may want to invest in a shrink before your OCD really gets out of hand.

Why do people just repeat stuff they read without doing any thinking for themselves? What exactly is wrong with $1 per user?

You don;t know what the cost per user is, because FB has not disclosed it. If the cost per user is say $0.10, then FB is making a profit of $.90 per user. For $500m users that’s $450m profit.

I’m not saying those are the numbers, just that throwing around $1 revenue per user is meaningless without context such as cost per user.

If you are bored with facebook, check out Cloud.CM.

What *I* don’t get is: Why “THANKS” ?

“Thanks, you dumb fucks” would have been the more honest version.

really? forget general knowledge about the tech industry and what is happening around, but you must have atleast read on TC about their revenue:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/22/facebook-revenues/

Seriously people have to get their facts right before posting on blogs.. Comments in TC are becoming so mundane and inane..

Zuckerberg in the news http://www.picturelot.com/viewer.php?file=56724160150106094354.jpg

That’s the spirit. Who say’s facebook is going down now? One should realize that even facebook will gain an open-source alternative, its success can’t be mitigated by any privacy issues. For what it’s worth, All American couples love Facebook.

You are smoking something. FB’s revenues were $350M when their total (active and dead) accounts were at 350M users. So you calculate yourself the cost? It is $1/user. No company can survive without making revenues in the range of $25-$50/user. This is a bogus company simply living on VC investment dollars.

I know someone here in San Francisco who has 50 different “real” Facebook User Accounts that he uses to test the API.. ;)

The implications of being “Active” on Twitter as opposed to Facebook are very different. Many people sign up for Twitter but don’t tweet because they don’t want to broadcast information.

In contrast, there’s a lot of benefit to be had from Facebook and you could certainly be classified as “active” on it even if all you do is look at your friends newsfeed.

He did nothing special , the software he wrote can be tinkered together in oh 2 weeks about the time it took him to do by any competent developer (Harvard education not required for this one) what he did have was intense drive, intense forsight and ambition in spades….those things can compensate for dominant technology. After that they had great strategy on focusing on social elements first (as opposed to other sites that were out there before FB but took other paths to oblivion rather than success like bebo, hi5, myspace,friendster…)

He got out there early and he executed in ways the other guys did not, the technology itself (as could be seen by how many there were so quickly) was not the ah ha! factor to the success of FB. Some good choices and lots of luck were.

and iam happy that iam one of that 500 million members!!!!

Zuck throwing out a guarantee about one billion users is enough reason to believe it’ll never happen. Facebook is at its peak time. It’s not going to roll over and shrink tomorrow morning, but this 2 or 3 year period is its peak for growth and dominance.

They might see 1 billion user accounts one day, but not active user accounts.

I suspect the next number will 450 million and then 400 million and then they won’t post anything anymore and start ripping out the copper wires from the walls. Facebook is well on its way to becoming worthless.

http://mankabros.com/onmedea/2010/07/facebook_is_worthless.html

Also, MZ should stop working out. No one is going to date him anyway based on his physique.

Zuckerberg’s picture reminds me of those porn sites where there’s a woman holding the sign and it says: “I’m hot and looking to meet guys in .”

It’s monthly active users. This means people that have logged on in the last 30 days.

This would in general exclude people who signed up and didn’t come back (outside of the new registrations in the 30 day window).

And another note, the 500 million figure DOES NOT COUNT ACCOUNTS THAT AREN’T BEING USED ON A 30 DAY ROLLING BASIS, NOR DOES IT COUNT DEACTIVATIONS/DELETIONS.

So to your question about how far would Facebook fall…. not at all. You can strip out all deletions, all deactivations, and all inactive users and the 500mm figure will not change at all.

Please remember your comment when Facebook goes public in two years and announces they are making $5 – $6 billion/year

I wish I could “like” this comment lol You are spot on.

I get it, it’s still impressive and I care.

#@darth vader True. you prepare the Death Star. The war is coming.

THE PEN IS… BLUE!

And thanks to you, Mark, for fucking us all in the ear–just like you promised you would.

Bobsled, only a liberal could employ the assertion that the average Republican is a simpleton.

Why are you so angry? The election is over dude, calm down.

Ok, if not a contradiction then a massive edge case. Considering that over 50% of their active user base logs in daily (ie over 250mm people using the site every day) it isn’t safe to assume that there is a large volume of fake accounts.

Besides, being the engineering company that they are they will (1) have massive Site Integrity efforts in place to remove fake accounts algorithmically (2) log not only session visits but time per session and a slew of other usage metrics to strip fake accounts out of the active user calculation.

They would do this to make sure they are optimizing their systems against accurate data because inflating their user count by 10mm doesn’t do anything for the bottom line of the company.

nothing dumb about using facebook.

people communicate and ignore ads, fb makes money from ads.

And huge heat from that clunky LCD screen. Sooo 2008. I’d work there if they provided nice cool LEDs. :P

I’m impressive, and I get why you’d care.

I was hoping for steaks and beer, but whatever floats your boat I reckon

just like your site, eh?

And all these user statistics come from? Facebook, that’s who. So why should we believe any of these enormous user number claims? Because they wouldn’t lie to us, would they?

you sound like a shill, a Facebook shill.

What’s your title over there Somedude? And how long have you been out of school? 1, 2, 3 years? You were probably still in elementary school when the first generation of “cannot fail” companies fleeced investors back in the mid 90′s. How many of those companies are still around today?

That’s the real point. Facebook has not proven they can make any money. Get press? Grow users? Annoy users? Change the way people interact on the web? Yes, make money? No.

They may never be profitable. Has that thought ever crossed your mind? I’d sell your stock options now, they are peaking!

Only a narrow minded Republican would confuse insight with anger…

Please just stick to Nascar and leave the technology analysis to those with intelligence and creativity.

Bob out

your a douchbag if you think thats gonna stand in court, laugh my fucking ass off

hehe. Good one man

That’s the best network of informants CIA or any other agency ever created.

fukin liar
but really
as i have 4 acounts and now only use 1 that is a lie

The person who is celebrating this the most is, Paul Ceglia of NY. Who is claiming 80% of facebook’s stocks :)

Well, you don’t get to 500 million without making a few enemies..

While 500 million is an amazing number, we must also realize that about 70% of web users are still using it as a read-only medium. Here’s an article that discusses this missing majority.

http://startupmeme.com/the-missing-majority-on-the-web-is-complex-technology-putting-barriers-to-make-people-look-beyond-the-read-only-medium/

Zuckerberg looks like he is getting older. But still this picture surely doesn’t make sense to the millions of facebook users who don’t know who Zuckerberg is.

$800 million in revenues, no profits, $860 million from VC’s, is the other $60 million profit?

I think he’s not replying because it’s so blatantly obvious. Stop hating.

Google “facebook cashflow positive” to get a googol of articles dated Sept 2009.

Search “facebook profits 2010″ to get numbers between 500mil to 1.5bil.

Wow…Amazing socialnetworking. Good job Mark. I love it.

This is an amazing achievement from Facebook. Last year they had 400 million. A 100 million gain is really big. Compare that to twitter in which its growth of users is starting to get saturated.

No wonder, that Facebook is also now the no. 1 source of divorce for USA. More. http://2su.de/3kF

My name is Mani pular chakma. I’m Bangladeshi. My religion Boudha.

Err… You have to take into consideration that Farmville-like game addicts have more than one account to allow them to play more and go around the limitation of the number of “friends”… I personally know people with more than 5 account just to play… Nothing more…

If Zynga would leave Facebook, it would loose a considerable number of its users.

what a feat 500million users, you gotta hand it to them!!
i just hope they don’t turn themselves into another ‘google’ – however i think it’s inevitable, G started out the same, offering a great free service now everything is monetised and FB will no doubt do the same (they have already started)

Must’ve been a really important announcement to him. He’s wearing the head-of-state attire again.

Do you realize how much paper these guys wasted!

Even though he doesn’t have a case and won’t win shit?

Facebook came and went for me. I guess its nice they have so many followers but I think its become a addiction for some. For me it just was a annoyance.

I work at FB. I surprised I still get a paycheck!

he’s referring to Zuck’s statements about users during his Havard years.

I don’t get it, i’m impressive and you care

Do you know what’s better than half a billion users? A billions users which is what it will be in 2012. http://bit.ly/damq4s

I’m register new account 2 days ago in FB….may be i’m the man…….

If he didn’t have a case he wouldn’t have gotten an injunction.

500 million / 100 = real number of users

Zuckernerd- lucky he’s rich!

So they celebrate by bringing the site down? I have trouble accessing it for the whole morning, anyone else have the same issue?

Who cares, I love http://www.Dlinked.com more !

Aren’t you that weird black guy who does the Tanqueray commercials?

You don’t get it, but I’m impressed by how much I care.

I’m giving away free care cups. How full do you want yours?

Now you can free yourself from facebook…
and give some rest to your browser…
check out this app…

http://downhunter.com/software/3072-download-free-chit-chat-for-facebook-v135.html

http://www.downhunter.com is really doing a good job to save facebook servers from extraordinary traffic… lol

I’m not surprise that fb hit 500 million members since it is the world’s fastest growing social networking site. Great job! i always go online to check my account.

And then finally they’ll sell it for 1.5 million or less.

Make sure to register now to get notified when this great social network comes live http://tiny.cc/1y8lq

Zuckerberg Contract

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/facebook-suspects-forgery/

Make sure to register to get notified when this great social network comes live soon http://tiny.cc/1y8lq

That does sound like a cool app…its just that Facebook scares me at this point because they basically own the net…that and theres a rumor that the CIA is involved with them.
http://americasnewsnow.com/does-the-cia-control-facebook-the-answer-may-scare-you.html

I guess this number includes the people Facebook banned with no reason, no warning, no explanation, no support …. ?

I’m sure it does count them because the horror stories of having everything and loosing all in a click of a button because an automated script flagged your account increased A LOT and this is not proportional of the “growth” of facebook

Legitimate and loyal users ask for their account back and what Facebook does ?
Never lift the ban.
That leaves the user with 2 choices. Either will go and create another account (2 users in user database) or stop using Facebook for good (1 non active user)

Our personal account was banned in 24th of Jan.2010 for no reason, warning ….
So far only “can” replies.

We try to inform the people about this big problem which is equally disturbing with the privacy issues that were raised before

In our petition so far we have 670 signatures
http://FacebookDisabled.org

Come to our site and place your opinion / petition support

Let’s meet at the 600 million post of Facebook then…. They lost the game with numbers.

But what is also good to look at is what facebook may do next to make even more money and increase their user base. http://www.dotdigitalblog.com/ecommerce/500m-users-but-whats-next-for-facebook/

We used our BI software to generate an interactive dashboard to display the data concerning Facebook’s 500 million users. Now you can visualize it, you can see so much more than just a number!

The dashboard contains 3 visualizations which all show different relationships.

The first, the treemap, shows the number of users in July 2010 in relation to the percentage penetration (number of people on Facebook as a percentage of the country’s population). The size of each individual box within the treemap shows the total number of Facebook users in the country. The strength of the color shows the percentage penetration, with the darkest blue being attributed to a higher percentage of users, and the lightest blue being attributed to the lowest.

The second visualization is the geovisualization, or heat map. We have chosen graduated circles to display the information but you can change it back to the original heatmap format by clicking on “Rendering Mode” in the bottom left hand corner. Here we see the relationship between the population and the percentage penetration. The size of the graduated circles show proportionately the population size, and the number inside demonstrates the percentage penetration. A very simple but a highly visual representation, the heatmap is probably the best way to get an overall geographical idea of where Facebook’s users are around the world.

Lastly, our third chart is the classic pie chart. We have used the filters to filter out any country with a population of less than 10 million. This gives us a nice overview of the relationship between the percentage penetration and the number of users. We have also chosen to display the percentage penetration measure by size, to make it really clear which countries have a high percentage (USA, UK) and which have a low percentage (India, Mexico).

Access the dashboard here: https://newsletter.bimeapp.com/players/dashboard/…

I need facebook