Facebook Users Reach 120 Million, Explores Tie-Up With Salesforce.com

Facebook continued to extend its lead over other social networks as the number of users using its service reached an 120 million.
Facebook Users Reach 120 Million, Explores Tie-Up With Salesforce.com
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11/3/2008
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10/1/2015
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Facebook now has 120 million users, surpassing other social networks. It has also become the most trafficked website in the United Kingdom. (Ram Srinivasan/Epoch Times)
NEW YORK—Facebook continued to surge and extend its lead over other social networks as the number of users using its service reached an 120 million on Monday.

According to Alexa, the site is now the fifth-most trafficked site in the world and the top social networking site, and is also the top photo sharing web application on the Internet. Facebook also claims it is used by 85% of all 4-year college students.

Facebook COO Sandy Sandberg announced the latest numbers while speaking at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.

The company is exploring a tie-up with the the premier CRM vendor Salesforce.com. At the Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com announced Force.com, its new platform for cloud computing. Force.com will allow application developers to write software that are partly hosted on Salesforce.com and partly hosted on Amazon’s new cloud computing platform.

Force.com for Facebook allows developers and end users to integrate the estimated 250,000 Facebook applications with Salesforce.com’s business applications.

If the numbers are right, Facebook’s online users have grown by 30 million in the last four months, up from 90 million users in early July 2008. That means that Facebook is growing much faster than the 250,000 new users per day that the company had previously estimated.

Additionally, Internet monitoring site comScore released a new report today that showed Facebook eclipsing the BBC website in the United Kingdom to become the most popular website there. comScore’s estimates of the 18 million British using Facebook means that the website now reaches one-third of the entire population of the United Kingdom. In comparison, in the United States, Facebook is used by 14 percent of the entire population.