The fastest growing userbase in history.

Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by Simon Morton in Blog, Google, Learn More

Everybody’s favourite social network Facebook today officially declared it had reached 250 million users worldwide. Whats even more staggering is that it added 50 million new users in the last 3 months or 500,000 new users every day. Whats amazing is that Facebook isn’t the site with the fastest growth, that lies with Twitter.

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Lets put this into context:

Number of years it took to gain 50 million users for other media.

  • Radio – 38 years
  • TV – 13 years
  • The Internet – 4 years
  • Ipod – 3 years

What does this mean to me?

  • If you and your company are not on twitter already get on there and at a minimum secure your company names.
  • If your designers have not made consideration of this media and don’t have it in the road-map they are too slow.
  • If you think this is all about websites your wrong, Twitter and Facebook are very mobile phone friendly applications.
  • If you don’t act now, it will be too late.

Take a look at this video we posted earlier to bring you up to speed on how quickly its all moving.

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