Facebook Inc, the world's biggest social networking company, on
Wednesday said its user base grew considerably during the January-March
quarter, including a 10 per cent jump in monthly active users via mobile to 751 million.
The social network also said it had 665 million active users each day on average in March - up 8 per cent from 618 million in December and 26 per cent from a year earlier.
The number of users logging in to Facebook via their mobiles jumped 10 per cent to 751 million in the January-March quarter, from 680 million in the quarter ended December 2012. The monthly active users via mobiles increase 54 per cent year-on-year.
Instagram now has 100 million monthly users, up from 22 million when Facebook agreed to buy the company in April 2012.
Facebook's stock rose 12 cents to $27.55 in after-hours trading. The stock closed down 34 cents on Wednesday. It is up 3 per cent since the beginning of the year compared with an 11 per cent increase for the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
Facebook went public on May 18, 2012, at $38 per share, a price it hasn't hit since.
Here is a look at how the number of active users at Facebook has grown (Source: Facebook Inc):
- End of 2004: 1 million
- End of 2005: 5.5 million
- End of 2006: 12 million
- April 2007: 20 million
- October 2007: 50 million
- August 2008: 100 million
- January 2009: 150 million
- February 2009: 175 million
- April 2009: 200 million
- July 2009: 250 million
- September 2009: 300 million
- End of 2009: 350 million
- February 2010: 400 million
- July 2010: 500 million
- End of 2010: 608 million
- July 2011: 750 million
- September 2011: 800 million
- End of 2011: 845 million
- March 2012: 901 million
- June 2012: 955 million
- September 2012: 1.01 billion
- December 2012: 1.06 billion
- March 2013: 1.11 billion
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