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October 5, 2012

Facebook Celebrates One Billion Users With First TV Advert [VIDEO]

It is official! Facebook is now used by one billion people every month. That's one in every seven people in the world! To celebrate, Mark Zuckerberg has launched this TV advert. Check it out!

Facebook has so far recorded 1,13 trillion “likes”, 140,3 billion “friend connections”and 219 billion shared photos since it launched in February 2004. There are also more than 300 million new photos uploaded, along with 62 million songs played PER DAY.

They have officially reached one billion users every month – a seventh of all people currently sucking in oxygen around the world. Could you imagine the numbers if/when China starts using Facebook as well?
To celebrate his global domination, Mark Zuckerberg has launched the below TV advert – their first one ever. He also wrote the following comment on…can you guess? Yes, Facebook.

Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life. I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too.

[Source: Guardian]