Happy Birthday Facebook today celebrates 10 years of clicks - Quotidiano.net

The company celebrates its tenth anniversary by providing a link to which all users have access to “A Look Back”, a custom video that collects the most significant moments that each person has shared with his friends

The portrait of the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, made the faces of users with Chinese artist Zhu Jia (ANSA)

Rome, February 4, 2014 – Facebook is 10 years old . It was on February 4, 2004, when, from his room on the campus of Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg gave birth to what would become the leading social network in the world. It began with only four people with co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin. In less than a year, in December, already had 1 million subscribers. Today they have reached 1.23 billion, calculating monthly active users only.

The company, which landed on the Stock Exchange in 2012, is celebrating its tenth anniversary by providing a link (https://www.facebook.com/lookback) to which all users have access to “A Look Back,” a custom video that collects the most significant moments that each person has shared with their friends, from the time of registration today.

The rise of social networks has taken place passing by several key milestones. In 2005, in October, on the one hand was the introduction of the new “photo”, several other international schools were added to the network Facebook. In 2006, on the other hand there is the landing on mobile devices and the introduction of the “news feed”, and in September enrollment is open to all, and the network ceases to be the prerogative dell’u8niverso student and academic.

In 2008

arrive either Facebook chat app for both Apple devices. In 2009 appears the taso “like”. In 2010, the social network has become a global reality that reaches 500 million subscribers. The most recent history sees two historical milestones in 2012, the acquisition of Instagram and the aforementioned maxi landing on the Stock Exchange, which will have a rough start, but then, after many months, repay the investors with interest.

Into 2013, the monthly active users have passed the symbolic threshold of 1 billion, while those from mobile devices have exceeded 100 million. The network Facebook now has over 201 billion links between “friends”, all days are clicked 6 billion “Thumb” and shared 400 billion photos. And with only 6,337 employees worldwide, the social network achieves a quarterly revenues exceeding $ 2 billion.