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On Monday Facebook celebrated a truly mind-boggling milestone. For the first time ever, one billion people worldwide used the social media site in a single day.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his excitement, calling it “just the beginning of connecting the whole world”.
Mark Zuckerberg – We just passed an important milestone…. | Facebook
So how did we get to this point, where one in seven people are using the site every day? The infographic below charts Facebook’s meteoric rise, from its 2004 launch, its evolution to a global phenomenon, to the billion users it has today.
