The latest Facebook facts and statistics

in #facebook7 years ago

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Here are some fascinating numbers on a range of Facebook facts and metrics from mobile, revenue and a host of other facts to share in your presentations and wow your next dinner party guests.

  1. Every second there are 20,000 people on Facebook. This means in just 18 minutes there are 11 million users on Facebook1
  2. On average there are 486,183 users a minute accessing Facebook from their mobile
  3. 79% of all users are accessing Facebook from their mobile.
  4. There are 745 million daily mobile users
  5. Facebook is adding 7,246 people every 15 minutes or 8 per second
  6. Every minute there are 150,000 messages sent
  7. Every 15 minutes there are over 49 million posts. To be precise 49,433,000 or 3 million posts per minute
  8. There are 100,000 friend requests every 10 minutes
  9. There are 500,000 Facebook “likes” every minute
  10. Facebook generates $1.4 million in revenue every hour
  11. Nearly 73% of Facebook’s ad revenue comes from mobile advertising
  12. Facebook earns $2.5 billion a quarter from mobile advertising
  13. People share 1.3 million pieces of content on Facebook every minute of every day
  14. In November of 2014the number of video uploads to Facebook exceeded YouTube video uploads according to Social Bakers
  15. Facebook generated $12.47 billion in sales in 2014 (a rise of 58% year on year)
  16. Photo uploads are 350 million per day
  17. Users spend 21 minutes per day on average on Facebook
  18. 31% of US senior citizens are on Facebook
  19. 66% of all millennials (15-34 year olds) use Facebook
  20. People spend 927 million hours a month playing Facebook games
  21. There are 1 billion mobile app links enabled on Facebook
    Sources: Buddyloans.com, Fortune.com, Socialbakers.com,Techcrunch.com, Expanded Ramblings, Zephoria.com