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Title: Facebook hits milestone: One billion people logged in on Monday Post by: HCK on August 29, 2015, 09:00:13 pm Facebook hits milestone: One billion people logged in on Monday
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Earlier this week, one billion people logged into Facebook in a single day, marking a new milestone for the social network.</p><p> When Facebook reported its second-quarter results in July, the company said it had an average of 968 million users logging in daily.</p><p> But Monday of this week marked the first time a billion users logged in on a single day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post (https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102329188394581?pnref=story) on Thursday.</p><p> Looked at another way, one in seven people on Earth logged in, he wrote.</p><p> Zuckerberg did not break out the statistic further, or say what might have driven the high number of log-ins on Monday.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2977120/software-social/facebook-hits-milestone-one-billion-people-logged-in-on-monday.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Facebook hits milestone: One billion people logged in on Monday (http://www.macworld.com/article/2977120/software-social/facebook-hits-milestone-one-billion-people-logged-in-on-monday.html#tk.rss_all) |