14 DAY TRIAL // Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites in the world, announced today that its usage is on the rise, and that it now has a number of more than 100 million mobile users all around the world. According to the SNS, its goal is to offer access to its functionality to a number of people as large as possible, and reaching this milestone regarding mobile users is one step it is taking in this direction.
One more thing that should be mentioned here is that the mobile users accessing Facebook from their handsets come from a wide range of carriers all around the world. Not to mention that the new announcement comes only six months after Facebook said that it had passed over the 65 million mobile users mark.
“Through this growth, we have continued to try to improve the experience of these mobile products. We work with every major device manufacturer and many operators to ensure that we can provide the best possible mobile experience across the thousands of different devices, mobile operating systems and carriers you rely on,” the social networking site notes.
At the same time, it also says that it is working on delivering newer products for mobile phone users, so that they can enjoy the same features on their handsets as desktop users enjoy on their computers. Among these products delivered for mobile users, we can count the m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com websites, the availability of Facebook conversations via SMS, as well as a wide range of applications available for handsets on the market.
“Facebook is already one of the most requested services on mobile, and we work with every major device maker and mobile operating system to bring applications and integrations to all platforms. We're always improving these applications and have recently released updates for our applications on Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia and Samsung. We also support a broad range of new Facebook experiences on devices from HTC, INQ, LG Electronics, Palm, Sony Ericsson and Microsoft's Windows Mobile,” the company notes.