Facebook socially networks roughly 10 percent of Earth’s population

June 26, 2011 By Adam Rosenberg

Facebook hits 750 million users, totaling more than 10 percent of the world's population, according to a source close to the company.

Mark Zuckerberg has had quite the week. First, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss along with former Harvard classmate Divya Narendra confirmed that they would not be appealing the Supreme Court ruling that upheld their $65 million settlement with Facebook and its co-founder. They did, however, decide to move forward with a suit alleging that Facebook suppressed evidence during the 2008 settlement negotiations. All of which might be a little worrisome for Zuckerberg if he weren’t so busy celebrating the just-passed company milestone of more than 750 million monthly active Facebook users.

750 million, on a planet of roughly seven billion people. That’s more than 10 percent of the world’s population, folks.

The number hasn’t been publicly confirmed, coming instead from “a source close to the company” speaking with TechCrunch. An official numbers update from the company hasn’t been released since last summer, when the 500 million user milestone was reached. The insider source is probably the hardest confirmation we’re going to get to, since popular opinion pins expectations for Facebook’s next user count update at the one billion user milestone.

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Lindsworth Horatio Deer at 2:13pm 27th June 2011 Politician may soon be giving FB political donations to run FB campaigns as part of their political campaigns. 10% is statisticaly significant!!!
Jubair Saidi at 1:43pm 27th June 2011 only 10%? I bet you that goes up another 10-20% if China signs on rofl.
Jamie Bustamante at 11:17am 27th June 2011 Wish people would say that more often "Just as Jamie said" and that be the end of it. Believe it!
Samuel Ward at 11:13am 27th June 2011 Just as Jamie said, hence the word "roughly", why do you morons doubt everything? 10% of the world is on Facebook, so what. Enjoy your day.
Adam Rosenberg at 4:04am 27th June 2011 Just one for me, but I'm not a big FB gamer. Yes though, I'll grant you that a fair number of folks keep more than one account.
Tom Pajak at 6:24am 27th June 2011 I personally have 2 accounts...1 for games and 1 for friends......so that 750million people is such ADVERTISING BS
Alex Cha at 5:39am 27th June 2011 Assuming that those 750 million accounts are not duplicates, spam bots, advertisers, etc...
Jamie Bustamante at 5:01am 27th June 2011 Yep.
Jared Sirilo at 5:01am 27th June 2011 It means 90 percent of the worlds population have a life. Jk.
Purwa Mishra at 4:55am 27th June 2011 look at other point guyzz , it means we are overly populated .............
Jamie Bustamante at 4:50am 27th June 2011 @Kyle hence the word "roughly" included there...
Kyle Patnett at 4:49am 27th June 2011 But people create fake profiles, people have multiple fb because they got hacked theirs plenty of situations that will make these #'s wrong and not 100% accurate
Jade Zekkou at 4:46am 27th June 2011 Poor bastards!!
PeepingTom at 10:46am 26th June 2011 Riiiiight. How many accounts do you have? More than one? I do...