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“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by nkozyra »

phn wrote: post #10
smaili wrote: post #4

Regardless 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?

Without absolutely nothing to base myself on, I'd guess Google has higher usage. Does anyone have any quick data at hand on this? EDIT: By usage I mean what's referenced on the article, number of unique people using the page.

Not to be pedantic, but this isn't really about usage so much as unique humans. I think the fact that 1B separate human beings utilized the service is more astounding than, say, number of page views or requests.

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by austenallred »

ljoshua wrote: post #12

I'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.

My guess would be 1 billion unique accounts logged in today, via one means or another.

Absolutely mind blowing.

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by rev_bird »

phn wrote: post #10
smaili wrote: post #4

Regardless 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?

Without absolutely nothing to base myself on, I'd guess Google has higher usage. Does anyone have any quick data at hand on this? EDIT: By usage I mean what's referenced on the article, number of unique people using the page.

I'm having trouble figuring out which would be a bigger accomplishment -- 1 billion on Facebook's platform or Google's. I'd imagine the average Facebook user (viewing/uploading photos and video, multimedia ads, pages with a zillion pieces of dynamic content, etc.) has heavier responses, but Google needs to do more legwork to put together the comparatively light response to a regular old web search.

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by Matt3o12_ »

sombremesa wrote: post #13

From 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'?

I'd guess that she used a local email provider (probably an email address provided by per ISP or another local email host), but their servers were down either because of the load (everybody was not trying to send emails), or their servers were down as well. Another possible option is that only her mobile internet worked and she didn't have email on her phone, thus she had to use facebook and now thinks my email doesn't work when it's needed.

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by oh_sigh »

austenallred wrote: post #22
ljoshua wrote: post #12

I'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.

My guess would be 1 billion unique accounts logged in today, via one means or another. Absolutely mind blowing.

With approximately 100 million spam accounts, and 200 million shill accounts used for distasteful things like "like"ing Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bushes accounts.

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by inerte »

sombremesa wrote: post #13

From 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'?

Maybe it was a local email provider. I haven't found this comment you're referring to but I guess it's disaster related, and it's plausible that an email provider/host went down

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by cryptoz »

renownedmedia wrote: post #20
motti_s wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not necessarily, Facebook has mobile clients.

Facebook mobile clients don't use the Internet?

The web is not the same as the Internet, though. The web is an open platform built on open protocols on top of the Internet.
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