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 through facebook zero?
“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
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Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I highly doubt they think that way when qualifying numbers for PR purposes. Regardless of how they connected to Facebook it is still Facebook Inc and it is still hell of a number.
If they are counting people who were only served a "like" button on other site's pages, this announcement boils down to "the internet is a big place! Full story at 11."
Exactly, if I visit a page where they have embedded commenting using fb id, it's not actually me visiting the site. An issue is if someone decides to place ADs in fb based on this publicity.
Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
#633.2 B people on planet earth with Internet access.
http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/
31% of anyone on planet Earth who could conceivably use a facebook product did in one day. I call B.S. or way more than 3.2 B people on planet earth have Internet access.
Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
#643.2 B people on planet earth with Internet access. http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/ 31% of anyone on planet Earth who could conceivably use a facebook product did in one day. I call B.S. or way more than 3.2 B people on planet earth have Internet access.
I think you underestimate the scale of Facebook to be honest. It's MASSIVE.
Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
#65As astounding as this number is - and the longer I think about it the more mind blowing it gets - Facebook is all-but the single-point-of-failure for an Internet that was designed not to do that. I look forward to the day we build these new protocols (sharing, social graphs, even search) in open distributed ways - the day Facebook becomes AOL in other words. I'm just not sure how. And if I was any non-US culture-alig…
It's a social failure, not a technical one. There are decentralized social networks, but people are stuck in FB with various excuses despite constantly complaining about privacy and other problems.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Interesting question: What is the Web? HTTP, or HTTP+HTML? Facebook mobile clients use HTTP, so are they using the web?
Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
#67To give you an idea of how big one billion actually is, (assuming you count once per second) it takes over 11 days to count up to 1 million. It takes over 31 years to count up to 1 billion.
Seems like our brain think in log.
There's some evidence for that!
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/320/5880/1217.abstract
Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
#68Which means at least as many people used the web. Good going, Internet!
Not necessarily, Facebook has mobile clients.
It looks like mobile-only is 44% of FB use (FB doesn't distinguish between app vs. Internet), and 87% of FB users are on mobile.
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#69I'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.
Leave it to a PR announcement to omit critical details.
Unless shown otherwise, I will assume this number includes anyone whom Facebook sent an email to or whom ended up on a page that loaded a script from a Facebook property.
Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
#70If this was yesterday, I counted as 3, since I logged in into 3 of my 20 facebook accounts. Not sure how common that is.
I can assure you that you are in the minority by a long long margin.