Facebook Hits 150 Million Active Users

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 7, 2009 - 12:44pm.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Online social network Facebook now claims more than 150 million active users -- almost half of whom are visiting the site daily -- founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a blog post on Wednesday.

"This includes people in every continent -- even Antarctica. If Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan, Russia and Nigeria," Zuckerberg wrote.

The five-year-old social network is now available in more than 35 languages and accessible in 170 countries and territories.

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