Eight years after it was launched as a Harvard dorm room project, Facebook has declared that its social network is now being used by 1 billion people around the world every month – or one in seven of the global population.
Its founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, 28, is in need of good news after the company’s disappointing flotation in May. He took to his personal Facebook account to say that the milestone was “by far the thing I am most proud of in my life”.
via Facebook passes 1bn user mark | Technology | The Guardian.
