Pátek třináctého byl pro zakladatele Facebooku šťastným dnem. Právě v tento den totiž oznámil překročení hranice 175 miliónů registrovaných uživatelů tohoto nového fenoménu 21. století. A nejen to, někdy v tomto týdnu by měl Facebook celosvětově překonat hranici 200 milionů registrovaných uživatelů, k čemuž přispěla, mimo jiné, taky Česká republika, kde se počet uživatelů za poslední půlrok zdvojnásobil na současných cca. 330 tis. Zakladatel Facebooku Mark Zuckerberg musí být šťastný a spokojený zároveň. Nové globální médium totiž od základů mění obor komunikace, marketingu a reklamy a ukazuje cestu budoucím novým možnostem nejen v těchto oblastech.
Přečtete si víc informací v článku ze serveru Allfacebook.com: According
to public statistics and statements made by Facebook (combined with our
own estimates), the company has surpassed 190 million users and should
surpass 200 million users before the end of the month. At the end of
February, Mark Zuckerberg told MSNBC that the company was growing by over 700,000 users a day, including 1
million a week in the United States alone. The company also announced
that they surpassed 175 million users back on February 13th.
Rather than slowing in growth, as MySpace has experienced, growth has increased in terms of the absolute number of active users. Facebook also claims that the number of users returning daily still hovers around 50 percent of active users. If Facebook can continue at this pace, the company should easily surpass 300 million users before the end of the year, which is approximately 20 percent of the total internet population.
The company is also hoping that growth continues as they roll out
new products and continue to open up developer access to valuable
platform data. Facebook’s growth continues to increase as the company
expands its reach into new demographics. Today’s news that the company
has been translated into Hebrew and Arabic, amounting to over 40 languages, further supports Facebook’s international expansion.
If Facebook can continue such phenomenal growth, there’s a good chance that half of the global internet population will be on Facebook by the end of next year. That’s an unscientific assertion though so don’t quote it! Whether or not the company can obtain such a massive saturation has yet to be seen but there’s no doubt that the company is on the fast track to global social network domination.
Now all that remains is a breakthrough business model but perhaps that is right around the corner. How would you monetize 190 million users?
Posted by Nick O'Neill on March 11th, 2009 3:32 PM
