Comments on: Facebook now as big as the entire Internet was in 2004 https://www.pingdom.com/blog/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/ Website Performance and Availability Monitoring | Pingdom Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Denise https://www.pingdom.com/blog/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/#comment-1873 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:50:23 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9806#comment-1873 Thanks for the article. Agree with another user that the numbers might be inflated because they don’t show numbers of users with two or more Facebook accounts. Would also love to see side-by-side comparisons of radio, TV and the Internet. Glad to see the continued Internet growth, but I still think TV is at the top spot for viewer usage, especially on the weekends when I notice email, website, etc. traffic drop off. The Internet is a “short” attention tool. People watch TV shows and listen to the “same” radio stations for hours. There is a difference in the three, and I think the business leaders who create strategies to work those differences, come out on top.

Denise
writemoneyinc.com

]]> By: zrzzz https://www.pingdom.com/blog/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/#comment-1872 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:38:45 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9806#comment-1872 Remember when new technology got people excited? Now we get worked up over a glorified blog where people post their baby pictures and ruin future employment prospects. Human innovation is dead.

]]> By: Pingdom https://www.pingdom.com/blog/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/#comment-1871 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:47:29 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9806#comment-1871 In reply to ED.

@ED: Facebook’s definition of an active user is a user who has logged in at least once during the last 30 days.

]]> By: Pingdom https://www.pingdom.com/blog/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/#comment-1870 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:45:42 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9806#comment-1870 In reply to Dan.

@Dan: Who is claiming Denmark has 5.5 million Facebook users? Not this post. It’s comparing Facebook user numbers with country populations.

]]> By: ED https://www.pingdom.com/blog/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/#comment-1869 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:20:23 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9806#comment-1869 Does Facebook’s claim of “active users” match the definition of Groupon’s version of an ‘active user’ where Groupon’s valuation dropped from $25 Billion to $3 Billion in 3 hours? If so, you are looking at

FaceFraud!

]]> By: Dan https://www.pingdom.com/blog/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/#comment-1868 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:51:17 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9806#comment-1868 Something seems very wrong with these numbers. They claim Denmark has 5.5m facebook users, which is a lilttle too impressive for a country of 5.56m people.

]]> By: Ryan C https://www.pingdom.com/blog/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/#comment-1867 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:33:23 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9806#comment-1867 It kind of begs the question where is all this Facebook data being stored and how safe is it all, I mean that’s a lot of info on a lot of people makes you think, erm well it does me how about you guys?…..

]]> By: Tom Foremski https://www.pingdom.com/blog/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/#comment-1866 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:26:52 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9806#comment-1866 Deceptive headline. The number of Facebook users is now equal to all Internet users in 2004.

]]> By: @Techbrouhaha https://www.pingdom.com/blog/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/#comment-1865 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:15:01 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9806#comment-1865 But how many people have multiple accounts on Facebook?

]]> By: Sam https://www.pingdom.com/blog/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/#comment-1864 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:07:00 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9806#comment-1864 Since seeing his TED talk, I always read statistics in Hans Roslings voice. 🙂

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