Facebook's user growth has remained remarkably steady over time.
(Credit: Graph by Ben Parr/CNET )
Many people believe Facebook's growth is slowing down, but the raw numbers seem to tell a different story.
The world's largest social network recently celebrated a major milestone: 1 billion monthly active users. It took the company eight years -- or more specifically 105 months -- to reach the historic mark.
The milestone made me curious: is Facebook's growth stalling, or does it still have some fight in it left? Could Facebook reach 1.1 billion users early next year? What about 1.5 billion users in four? Two billion users in eight?
In order to better understand Facebook's user growth, I decided to analyze the numbers and graph out the company's user count from its launch in February 2004 to today.
Here are Facebook's active user counts over the years:
- February 2004: zero users
- December 2004: 1 million users
- December 2005: 5.5 million users
- December 2006: 12 million users
- April 2007: 20 million
- October 2007: 50 million
- August 2008: 100 million users
- January 2009: 150 million us... [Read more]
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