Flooding Facebook with Status Updates

Social networking giant, Facebook, has a whopping tally of 1,851,000 status updates every 20 minutes!

For an average website it may look like a spam attack but for Facebook it’s normal. Facebook is a social networking website which was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates and fellow students, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Within the eight years of its creation, Facebook has attracted almost 800 million active users with USA leading the way with 155 million people. With users of this enormity, one can begin to think that these mass statuses aren’t much of a big deal for Facebook. Valued at approximately 80 billion dollars, Facebook has hooked people from all parts of the globe, and has the second largest online traffic, being just behind Google.

This blizzard of status updates is not the only thing which is tolerated by Facebook’s servers. Every status update invites a storm of comments which according to statistics, rise to a tally of 10.2 million every 20 minutes on the website. The amount of interactive tools, like pages, groups, events and community pages, prove to be one of the major reasons why the world collectively spends 700 billion minutes on Facebook every month.

Facebook was originated with a mere file sharing service as one of its early functions, and has since then revolutionized the world of social networking and thrashed its rivals in terms of traffic, popularity, business and users. The traffic and users on Facebook are growing by the day thus; more people are utilizing the wide services it has to offer, allowing Facebook to achieve newer heights.

[Source: JEFFBULLAS, GARETHCASE]