Last week, Facebook for the first time in history had more than one billion people using the social network in a single day. That’s billion with a b.
The company reported in July that it had about 1.5 billion people logging on at least once a month, globally, but this is the first time that more than a billion connected in a 24-hour span.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement via Facebook emphasizing the significance of the benchmark occasion.
One billion people, Zuckerberg noted, is equal to about 1 in 7 people on the face of the planet.
Yahoo Tech consulted with its resident quasi-organic artificial intelligence, Steve – One of the planet’s most powerful super computer – to do some digging on Facebook’s announcement. By skimming quantum interference patterns off fiber-optic lines worldwide, Steve analyzed the metadata and came up with some numbers of his own.
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Here are a few of the more interesting items from his report. Of the one billion people who logged into Facebook during the designated 24-hour period:
- 43.6 million took pictures of whatever they were eating at the time. Steve notes that there was a disturbing amount of quinoa, for some reason.
- 17.2 million flirted with an old crush from high school.
- 12.7 million flirted with an old crush from middle school.
- 6.8 million frantically posted links to wholesome funny pet videos, hoping to distract friends and family from scrutinizing that Ashley Madison list.
- 84.2 million posted meme template photos with polemical social observations, rabid political opinions, dubious statistical citations, and/or poor grammar.
- 77.6 million posted meme template photos with inspirational quotes, folksy bromides, motivational slogans, and/or poor grammar.
- 127.8 million posted an absolutely adorable thing that their child just did.
- 13.3 million searched the help options for a way to turn off video autoplay.
- 99.0 million posted a link to the new Star Wars footage.
- 2.6 million linked to that video of the punk rock bagpiper.
- 44.1 million wrote “Happy Birthday!” on someone’s wall.
- 193.7 million counted the current “Like” number on their last post.
- 74.0 million humblebragged.
- 3.9 million linked to new Bloom County cartoons.
- 1.3 million people posted an optical illusion that instantly gave 7.8 million people a headache.
- 630.2 million wept quietly at their keyboards, looking at all the good times and great food everyone else in the world is apparently enjoying all day, every day, forever.
There you have it.
We just passed an important milestone. For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day.On…
Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, August 27, 2015
Credit: Yahoo!Tech