14 DAY TRIAL // Monday, August 24 2015, will forever remain a milestone in Facebook's history, being the first time ever when one billion users used the site on the same day.
What was once a project started in a college dorm is now, by far, the biggest social network on the Web.
Posting $4 billion / €3.54 billion in revenue this past July, Facebook has never been better, and Mark Zuckerberg's recent post shows this.
"We just passed an important milestone. For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day," noted Zuckerberg on his profile.
“On Monday, 1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family.”
Facebook was founded in early 2004. We all saw David Fincher's gripping 2010 movie The Social Network, about the company's beginnings.
We remembered how they had thrown a little party at the end of the movie when they reached 1 million registered users. Imagine how fun the party must have been this Monday, when they reached a milestone that many of us in the press thought to be impossible.
We all were quite impressed in 2012 when Facebook first reached 1 billion registered active users. Now this number is at 1.44 monthly active users, which means almost 70% of all its members were online this Monday at one time of the day.
To infinity and beyond...
But, as we all know Mark Zuckerberg, the company won't be happy with this either, and probably somewhere in their headquarters, there's a 2 billion users countdown animating on some screen somewhere.
In the meantime, to help spread its reach even further than before, Facebook has been seriously throwing money at its Internet.org project, an open initiative to help bring free or cheaper Internet connections to remote areas of the world.