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You might have a facebook account, and it is likely that you check your facebook account once everyday if not more than that, or you might even be the founder of various facebook groups. but there are a lot of things that you might not know about this biggest social network of our time founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
So go through this article to see them.


Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel, the co founder of PAYPAL. His $500,000 investment also helped to launch facebook

facebook was almost shut down in the beginning after a lawsuit by ConnectU, claiming that mark stole the idea for facebook and as well the technology used in creating it. The issue was settled out of court of an undisclosed amount.
Today facebook has grown both financially and otherwise to become one of the most influential web based companies of our time. More than 400 million people log into their facebook account at least once every month. More than 60% are on the site everyday.


Facebook ranks second in traffic in the whole world after google which is on the first position







In 2006, Yahoo offered to buy facebook from Zuckerberg for $1 billion
which he refused.
In 2009, Facebook was valued at $4 billion.
Today, it is valued at $7 billion to $11 billion


Monthly amount of time spent on facebook ranges between 8.2 to 8.3 billion hours.
Average number of facebook friends is 130.
The total number of servers running facebook’s infrastructure is more than 10,000.
Facebook makes most, if not all of its money through contextual advertising which is also applicable to other web based companies like Google and Yahoo.

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FACEBOOK FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW

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When Facebook began, a million users was a big deal. Then it hit 100 million, then 500 million. Now, one billion doesn't seem so far off now that unofficial stats on Facebook point to the sprawling social network reaching 700 million active monthly users in as little as a month from now, maybe two.

Inside Facebook, an independent news and analysis site focused on Facebook, has revealed that "Facebook grew by 21.5 million new users in March to reach 661.5 million monthly active users worldwide," which puts it on track for an expectation of lucky 700 million by this summer.

In the U.S., Facebook's steady growth added 2.78 million users in March, for a total of about 155 million active monthly users. This aligns pretty much with comScore, which recorded about 153 million monthly actives, and an increase of about 15 million worldwide every month.

Inside Facebook acknowledges its numbers aren't in sync with other third-party stats trackers, such as "Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner service shows Facebook with an extremely high 860 million monthly active users, fully 270 million above what we previously recorded. We’re not sure what accounted for the difference." On the other end of the spectrum, Inside Facebook's numbers diverge from Quantcast's lower showing of 136 million monthly Facebook users.

From Facebook itself, its publicly released stats remain at "more than 500 million," (from July) although it's been widely reported it crossed 600 million late last year by several outlets, including All Facebook and Business Insider

Facebook a month away from 700 million users?

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US President Barack Obama launched his reelection campaign with a social media barrage Monday, turning once again to the online tools that helped propel him to the White House three years ago.
Obama, 49, announced his 2012 candidacy with a message on Twitter, a status update on his Facebook page and an email blast to his millions of supporters, all of which provided a link to his BarackObama.com campaign website.
"Today, we're filing papers to launch our 2012 campaign," the Democrat told the 7.28 million followers of the @barackobama account on Twitter.
The Twitter message, Barack Obama page on Facebook and email all urged voters to "Say that you're in" and provided a link to barackobama.com where they could provide an email address and a zip code.
The website invites supporters to make a donation to the campaign, volunteer and offers a new range of branded merchandise, including 2012 badges, bumper stickers, water bottles and T-shirts.
The new campaign logo featured on the items includes the celebrated image of a rising sun used in 2008, but this time nestled in the "0" of 2012.

An "Are You In?" application on Facebook lets members of the social network write a message of support for Obama's candidacy and invite friends and family to do the same.
"I am so IN!," wrote Facebook user and Obama backer Debra Wilhoite.
"Of course I am in just like I was in 2008!" said another, Elizabeth Boergert.
Obama also released a two-minute YouTube video that did not feature the candidate himself speaking but a diverse range of supporters explaining why he should be given another four years in the White House in the November 2012 elections.
Obama relied heavily on the Internet during his 2008 presidential campaign for organizing, fundraising and communicating and Monday's launch made it clear he plans on doing so again, building a grassroots campaign online.

Obama turns to social media again for 2012 bid

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You'll never believe who turned him in: his first wife - because the two were still married.
Here's a tip we never thought we'd have to share: If you're already married, don't post pictures of your new wife on Facebook.
An already-married Grand Rapids, Mich. man had what NewsFeed can only assume was a joyous wedding ceremony last July. But it turns out Richard Barton, Jr. already had a wife, whom he married in 2004. (See photos of a convicted polygamist.)
When photos of Barton and his new Michigan wife turned up on Facebook, his old (but still current) wife, living in Rhode Island, took issue with Barton. She alerted authorities, who arrested Barton for polygamy.
The saga started in 2004 when Barton married the R.I. woman. Months later, Barton mysteriously failed to return home one evening, leaving his wife clueless as to his whereabouts. He was behind bars and not to return home, well, ever. (Is Utah, a polygamist haven, trying to shed its image?)
It appears that post-release, he fled to Michigan and started anew, though he failed to divorce his R.I. wife. She was clued in to the new wife when Barton defriended her on Facebook. Barton now faces polygamy charges, which carry a four-year jail sentence.
We predict Barton will soon go from having two wives - to zero.

Facebook Flub: Man Charged with Polygamy After Posting Second Wedding Photo Online

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An Australian academic Friday praised the increasing use of social media during disasters, saying there had been a "beautiful display of humanity" on Facebook during recent catastrophes.
Communications expert Gwyneth Howell said she had been prompted to research the use of social media following last year's major earthquake in New Zealand's second city Christchurch -- which caused damage but no deaths.
The University of Western Sydney academic could not have known more disasters were to follow -- floods and cyclones in Queensland, bushfires in Western Australia, a deadlier quake in Christchurch and Japan's quake and tsunami.
Howell said that interviews with people who established Facebook sites to help victims of Queensland's devastating floods in January had demonstrated a "sense of real community" existed in the virtual space.
"That was the thing that struck me... this beautiful display of humanity and generosity and a sense of 'I don't know you but I want to be able to help'," she told AFP.
"If that's what Facebook is providing and social media is providing people with in times of terrible anguish, I think it's a fantastic resource."
Howell said part of her ongoing research, which will examine how people use social media such as Facebook and Twitter during a time of crisis, will seek to discover how this medium can be deployed to even greater effect.
She said in the Queensland floods, during which Facebook sites offered news of people's whereabouts, help in reuniting pets with their owners and up-to-date information on flood zones, people used social media as an information source.
"They look at news media on television but they go to places like Facebook," Howell said.
Howell added that in the Queensland town of Toowoomba, which was hit with deadly flash floods in which many people were swept away, most people found out about the tragedy when friends changed their status on Facebook.
"That is where people learned about the disaster, they didn't learn it from mainstream media."
She said even as the situation in Japan, still reeling from last week's 9.0-magnitude quake and deadly tsunami, was unfolding, Facebook and Twitter were being used to make tribute pages and send messages of goodwill.
"That sense of community, I think, is outstanding, and it's what we need," she said.

Facebook can help in disasters

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A Chrysler contractor who posted an obscene tweet on the Chrysler brand's official account says he's sorry his four-letter flub has cost his firm the account and him his job.
Scott Bartosiewicz's Twitter posting from last week read: "I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the (hash)motorcity and yet no one here knows how to (expletive) drive." It was meant to appear on his personal account, but Bartosiewicz mistakenly sent it to the Chrysler brand's feed while he was stuck in traffic on Interstate 696.
The error resulted in the 28-year-old Ferndale resident's dismissal and contributed to Chrysler's decision not to renew its contract with Bartosiewicz's employer, New Media Strategies, a Virginia-based marketing firm.
"As a Detroiter, it was cool to know the work I was doing was part of this larger comeback for Detroit and the Big Three," Bartosiewicz told the Detroit Free Press. "I poured all my heart and soul into that. It's unfortunate it's all being overshadowed by 140 characters."
Bartosiewicz, a University of Michigan MBA student, blamed the mistake on a mix-up using a program that aims to help users juggle multiple Twitter accounts.
"I've tweeted and posted on Facebook thousands of time before," he said.
Chrysler said it did what was necessary and has moved on.
"The company has invested greatly, not only financially, but philosophically ... in supporting Detroit and the U.S. auto industry, and we simply couldn't tolerate any messaging — whether or not there was an obscenity — that was denigrating to Detroit," company spokesman Ed Garsten said.
Bartosiewicz said he understands the automaker's position.
"This brought a large amount of visibility to (Chrysler's) brand and to their company that they didn't want or ask for," he told WXYZ-TV. "And unfortunately somebody has to pay for that, and I don't think they can be blamed for that."
New Media Strategies spokeswoman Lyndsey Medsker said Thursday no decisions have been made on the future of the 20 or so employees in Michigan and Virginia who worked on the Chrysler account.
"In fact, it may very well be that we are able to reassign people to other accounts," she said.
Regardless, Medsker said, "New Media Strategies remains committed to Detroit and are big believers in the city's comeback."

Man fired over obscene Chrysler tweet apologizes

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Social media and the web have become the go-to for real-time information when disasters strike.
It's no surprise that the news of Friday's 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan spread rapidly on Twitter, while live video feeds and blogs kept pace.
With unreliable cellphone service, social media is the only form of communication consistently available to people in Japan, says Brian Gillespie of Texas. He has reached out to friends in Japan through Twitter andFacebook. Mixi, Japan's largest social networking site, has also been used to located loved ones, he says.
Like Gillespie's friends, many in Japan are updating us on the country's status via the Internet. In addition, thousands of reporters and citizen journalists worldwide are distributing their knowledge of the situation on homepages and social streams.
Now, hours after the initial quake, information about the earthquake and tsunami abound. Here's a list of some of the best Japan earthquake resources online, as suggested by our readers.
What tools are you using to track the crisis? Let us know in the comments which ones we've missed.

Social Media

Live Video and Blogs

Other Resources

HOW TO: Follow the Japan Earthquake Online

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PlayStation users will be treated to two new services aimed at making gaming that much more enjoyable: game data in the cloud and@AskPlayStation, a Twitter-based customer service hub.
Sony recently released firmware update V3.6, which will give PlayStation 3 Plus subscribers the ability to save
game data to the cloud. Every PlayStation Plus user will receive 150MB of cloud storage space—more than enough to save hundreds of saved game data. The data will be accessed automatically when logging onto any PlayStation 3 console—meaning your information will be saved on a remote server. Gamers can now hit save on their console, go to their pal's house, log on, and continue exactly where they left off without the need of a memory device.
The update also brings an auto-off feature to both the Dual Shock 3 and Six-Axis control. Connected controllers will be able to turn off after 10, 20, or 30 minutes of idle time. There's no word if this feature will also work with the Move controllers.
Having trouble updating your PlayStation 3? PlayStation's new customer service Twitter account, @AskPlaystation, may be able to help. The Twitter account will help followers with any PlayStation problem. It's operational 9:30am–5pm Pacific Monday through Friday and offers real-time responses between 2–5pm. In its off-hours, the @AskPlayStation Twitter account will continuously provide helpful hints when not responding to others.

Sony Dishes Out Cloud-Based Game Storage, Help Via Twitter

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If you're a developer interested in integrating music with a social bent into your web apps, start your engines: Super-social music subscription service Rdio is opening its Rdio.com API and affiliate program to developers.
Friday at SXSW, the service, which comes from the founders of Skype, announced that developers now will be able to tap into Rdio's web API, which will let them bring music into their web apps. That means that they can now access all of Rdio's 8 million songs, and monetize any apps using the API through Rdio's affiliate program, which will pay devs commission for directing new subscribers their way, and for song downloads.
“Developers who have been looking for a way to integrate music into their web applications now have a way to do it easily, legally and accessibly," says Todd Berman, VP of engineering at Rdio. "We’re also excited that our subscribers and the public will now be able to access Rdio content all over the web.”
While it's certainly interesting that devs will be able to access Rdio's extensive catalog, what's perhaps even more intriguing is that they will also be able to take advantage of the service's social features: seeing what friends are listening to, following other music fans and making playlists and collections. These aspects are what make Rdio unique from other music subscription services, which by and large lack robust social features.
Rdio also says that it will release its playback API for iOS and Android soon -- which means mobile developers will have access to Rdio's music collection (but not its social features).
Perhaps the most intriguing use of the Rdio API we have seen has been the MusicMapper app, which was created for the 2011 Grammy Awards. This app lets users tag certain locations with relevant music, via Rdio.
We're interested to see what kinds of APIs and products come to light as more and more subscription services open up their APIs. At CES, MOG announced The MOG Fusion Program, which helps consumer electronics and auto manufacturers integrate MOG’s APIs (including catalog search, playlisting, favoriting, etc.) into their products.

Web Developers Will Now Be Able To Tap Into the Power of Rdio

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A powerful 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck the coast of Japan on Friday, causing widespread power outages, fires and a severe tsunami that was reported to be up to 10 meters high in places. It was the seventh most powerful earthquake in recorded history.
The reaction on Twitter, quickly becoming the go-to service in emergencies
, was immediate and intense. Less than an hour after the quake, with the country's phone system knocked out, the number of tweets coming from Tokyo were topping 1,200 per minute, according to Tweet-o-Meter.
In the U.S., West Coast Twitter users learned of the quake late Thursday night and were quickly sharing reports, prayers and video streams. Many favored the live Al-Jazeera feed; others offered a live feed from aJapanese station on Ustream. Meanwhile, hundreds of tweets criticized CNN's anchor for laughing on air while reporting the tragedy.
On a more practical note, Twitter users shared the tsunami's estimated times of arrival on U.S. shores -- before an official government tsunami warning went into effect. The wave was expected to hit Hawaii first, at roughly 3 a.m. local time.
Google's official feed posted a link to the Japanese version of its People Finder, for loved ones who have been separated.

Twitter Users React To Massive Quake, Tsunami In Japan

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Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz beat out Mark Zuckerberg as the youngest person on Forbes's billionaires list published Thursday. Moskovitz was born eight days after Zuckerberg, his Harvard roommate.

The 26-year-old is worth $2.7 billion,

most of which he made through his share in Facebook. Born in Washington, D.C., Moskovitz dropped out of Harvard after two years like the Facebook CEO. Moskovitz served as Facebook's first chief technology officer. Although he no longer works for the company he helped found, he still owns a 6% share in the company. Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, a former engineering manager at Facebook, launched their own networking firm Asana last month.
This year, there are 20 billionaires under age 40, up from just eight last year. Zuckerberg comes in as the second-youngest billionaire, worth $13.5 billion, nearly five times as much as Moskovitz. If any of these young moneybags are looking for a place to drop some dough, we can think of one writer who would be happy for a handout.

Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Edges Out Mark Zuckerberg:Forbes's Youngest Billionaire

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A federal magistrate ruled Friday that prosecutors can demand Twitter account information of certain users in their criminal probe into the disclosure of classified documents on WikiLeaks.
Three of the five account holders targeted by the government had asked the judge to reverse an earlier order she issued requiring Twitter to turn over the information to prosecutors. The Twitter users argued that the government was on a fishing expedition and its request amounted to an unconstitutional violation of their freedom of speech and association.
But in a ruling issued Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Carroll Buchanan said the government's request was reasonable and did nothing to hamper the Twitter users' free speech rights.
"The freedom of association does not shield members from cooperating with legitimate government investigations," Buchanan wrote in her 20-page opinion.
The efforts by the Twitter users marked the first legal skirmish in the Justice Department's criminal investigation of the WikiLeaks disclosures, but is unlikely to be the last. The Twitter users' lawyers, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation — had previously said they would appeal an unfavorable ruling from the magistrate to a trial judge.
A federal law — the Stored Communications Act — allows prosecutors to obtain certain electronic data without a search warrant or a demonstration of probable cause. Instead, the government must only show that it has a reasonable belief that the records it seeks are relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation.
Prosecutors said the law is used routinely in criminal investigations, and that the WikiLeaks investigation is no different from any other criminal probe.
The U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia, which is investigating the WikiLeaks case, declined comment after Friday's hearing.
Buchanan agreed with prosecutors, and said the Twitter users had no reason to expect that the information sought by prosecutors would be kept private. The order does not seek the content of the tweets themselves, which are already publicly disseminated. Instead, it seeks certain "non-content" information, like billing records and IP addresses associated with the accounts.
"The Twitter Order does not seek to control or direct the content of petitioners' speech or association," Buchanan wrote.
Lawyers for the Twitter users had argued that people would be less likely to speak freely if they knew that doing so could result in their being subjected to a government investigation.
Twitter did not immediately respond Friday to questions about whether it now intends to turn over the information sought by prosecutors.
The original order issued by Buchanan in December 2010 at prosecutors' request sought account information from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is being held at Quantico Marine Corps Base amid allegations that he leaked classified documents about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to WikiLeaks.
Three other accounts belonging to American Jacob Appelbaum, Dutch citizen Rop Gonggrijp and Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of Iceland's parliament, were also targeted. Those three challenged the court order. Assange has contended that, as an Australian citizen, he is not subject to American law.
Buchanan also rejected a request that would have required the government to disclose whether it sought similar records from other social networking sites like Facebook.

Twitter must give user info in WikiLeaks probe

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              A US judge Friday ordered Twitter to hand over the data of three users in contact with the activist site WikiLeaks, rejecting arguments the move would violate their rights to privacy and free speech.
President Barack Obama's administration won a court order last year seeking information from the Twitter accounts as it considers action against WikiLeaks, which has released a flood of diplomatic documents.

The accounts on the micro-blogging service belong to Icelandic lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir, US computer researcher Jacob Appelbaum and Rop Gonggrijp, a Dutch volunteer for WikiLeaks.
Judge Theresa Buchanan, based in the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, rejected the argument made by the three Twitter users' that the order would have a "chilling effect" on freedom of speech.
"The Twitter order does not seek to control or direct the content of petitioners' speech or association," she wrote.
She said the three "already made their Twitter posts and associations publicly available" and voluntarily provided information to Twitter pursuant to the website's privacy policy.
Buchanan also dismissed the argument that the order violated the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects people against "unreasonable" searches.
The Twitter users "voluntarily conveyed their IP addresses to the Twitter website, thus exposing the information to a third party administrator, and thereby relinquishing any reasonable expectation of privacy," she said.
WikiLeaks, which has strongly criticized the order, said that three Twitter users never worked for the site but that two helped make public a video that showed a 2007 US helicopter strike in Baghdad that killed several people.
The site has since angered US authorities by posting secret documents on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and releasing a slew of internal correspondence among US diplomats around the world.

US judge orders Twitter to give up WikiLeaks data

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