World's Largest Social Media Platform, world record set by Facebook

November 15, 2024

Menlo Park, California, United States--Facebook, (Nasdaq: META), a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta, was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates (Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes); Facebook championed over three billion monthly active users (MAU) as of January 2024, thus setting the world record for being the World's Largest Social Media Platform, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

"Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students.

"Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities. Since 2006, Facebook allows everyone to register from 13 years old, except in the case of a handful of nations, where the age limit is 14 years.

"As of December 2022, Facebook claimed almost 3 billion monthly active users. As of October 2023, Facebook ranked as the third-most-visited website in the world, with 22.56% of its traffic coming from the United States. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s." (Wikipedia)

"A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users. In September 2009, Facebook became cash flow positive ahead of schedule after closing a roughly $200 million gap in operating profitability.

"A commentator in The Washington Post noted that Facebook constitutes a "massive depository of information that documents both our reactions to events and our evolving customs with a scope and immediacy of which earlier historians could only dream".

"Especially for anthropologists, social researchers, and social historians—and subject to proper preservation and curation—the website "will preserve images of our lives that are vastly crisper and more nuanced than any ancestry record in existence". (Wikipedia)

"Facebook, Inc. operates as a social networking company worldwide. The company engages in the development of social media applications for people to connect through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces," the Forbes says.

"It enables users to share opinions, ideas, photos, videos, and other activities online. The firm's products include Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Oculus."

"As of 29 April 2019, Facebook was the world's largest online social network, with 2.375 billion monthly active users (MAU) based on Q1 2019 results. Facebook reached the 2-billion monthly user milestone on 30 June 2017," the Guinness World Records says.

"By comparison, Instagram has a reported 1 billion monthly active users (as of June 2018) and around 321 million for Twitter (as of February 2019)."

"Facebook is the largest social media platform online, both the time on the platform and its daily active user base have grown year-over-year since its humble beginnings in a Harvard dorm room," the Backlinko says.

"According to Meta’s most recent investor report, Facebook currently has 3.065 billion monthly active users (MAUs). Furthermore, the number of Facebook’s daily active users (DAUs) currently stands at 2.11 billion people, meaning 68.85% of the total monthly users log in on a mobile device or desktop each day."

"Facebook takes center stage on the social media landscape. As the world's most popular social media platform turned 20 in February 2024, it continues to come out on top in terms of user numbers, despite new platforms breaking on to the scene. Facebook needs no introduction and is the social media giant that keeps other platforms on their toes," the Statista says.

"Facebook championed over three billion monthly active users (MAU) as of January 2024. India is home to the world’s largest Facebook audience, with 366 million users as of early 2024. Additionally, the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil each had well over 100 million Facebook users."

"No other social channel contributed more to revolutionizing the way we interact with one another than Facebook (META)," the investing.com says.

"As social media channels gained momentum in the twenty-first century, Meta, widely known as Facebook, quickly gained popularity, eclipsing its older competitors, Twitter and LinkedIn.

"In July 2022, Facebook boasted 2.936 billion monthly active users and thus beat other social media platforms hands down."

"Meta Platforms, Inc., doing business as Meta, and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. (Wikipedia)

"The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. Advertising accounts for 97.8 percent of its revenue 2023. Meta ranks among the largest American information technology companies, alongside other Big Five corporations Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.

"The company was ranked #31 on the Forbes Global 2000 ranking in 2023. In 2022, Meta was the company with the third-highest expenditure on research and development worldwide, with R&D expenditure amounting to US$35.3 billion."