Which means at least as many people used the web. Good going, Internet!
Not necessarily, Facebook has mobile clients.
“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
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#12I'm curious to know what the metric is actually measuring. Is it one billion people that hit Facebook.com or used the mobile app? Or is it also counting people that might have triggered a hit just by browsing around sites with Like buttons on them while logged in, but didn't actually use Facebook?
To some extent it doesn't matter because it's just such a massive and impressive number, but I'd be curious to know.
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#13From one of the comments:
'Normal email communication and phone lines were down, but thank goodness FB was up!'
Can someone explain this? How can FB be 'up' but E-mail be 'down'?
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#14 used Facebook in a single day
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#15Wait - half a billion of those were my sons, polling the site every 50 milliseconds
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#16Regardless of whether this includes real people or not, that's still quite a bit of load that they're able to handle. Have other services like Google or YouTube reached this milestone as well or is this an overall first for any site?
It's probably harder to quantify "people" with those services since they're not inherently tied to a single account. Given YouTube has long exceeded 5B pvs a day, I suspect they've come close if not surpassed it in a single day.
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#17I wonder how they got that number. If getting Android notifications counts as 'using Facebook' then I'm one of those one billion.