facebook, the stats

Collected from various sources around the web

A second on facebook

838 Links shared per second
1,102 Photos tagged per second
1,236 Event invites per second
1,322 Wall posts per second
1,375 Status updates per second
1,643 Approved Friend Requests per second
2,264 Uploaded Photos per second
3,860 Messages sent per second
6,381 "Likes" per second
8,508 Comments per second

A minute on facebook

50,304 Links shared per minute
66,168 Photos tagged per minute
74,204 Event invites per minute
79,364 Wall posts per minute
82,557 Status updates per minute
98,604 Approved Friend Requests per minute
135,849 Uploaded Photos per minute
231,605 Messages sent per minute
382,861 "Likes" per minute
510,504 Comments per minute

A day on facebook

72,437,760 Links shared per day
95,281,920 Photos tagged per day
106,853,760 Event invites per day
114,284,160 Wall posts per day
118,882,080 Status updates per day
141,989,760 Approved Friend Requests per day
195,622,560 Uploaded Photos per day
333,511,200 Messages sent per day
551,319,840 "Likes" per day
735,125,760 Comments per day

Top 50 Likes

1. Texas Hold'em Poker
2. Facebook
3. Michael Jackson
4. Lady Gaga
5. YouTube
6. Eminem
7. Family Guy
8. Coca-Cola
9. Rihanna
10. Megan Fox
11. South Park
12. Linkin Park
13. Vin Diesel
14. Starbucks
15. The Twilight Saga
16. Lil Wayne
17. House
18. Bob Marley
19. The Simpsons
20. Barack Obama
21. Justin Bieber
22. Music
23. Shakira
24. Cristiano Ronaldo
25. Oreo
26. Katy Perry
27. Twilight
28. Disney
29. Taylor Swift
30. SpongeBob SquarePants
31. Mafia Wars
32. Dr. House
33. Red Bull
34. Skittles
35. AKON
36. Harry Potter
37. David Guetta
38. Selena Gomez
39. Beyoncé
40. Adam Sandler
41. MTV
42. Two and a Half Men
43. Metallica
44. The Beatles
45. Converse All Star
46. Toy Story
47. Paramore
48. Avril Lavigne
49. Usher
50. Victoria's Secret

Users

- More than 500 million active users
- 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- Average user has 130 friends
- People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
- There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
- Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month

Other

- More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
- Arround 60,000 Servers

Sam