the history of facebook: 10 year anniversary
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This year Facebook celebrates its 10th anniversary. What started as a social network for college students has turned into one of the largest websites in the world with billions in revenue. This presentation provides an overview of Facebook's history and includes some major milestones for the social networking site.TRANSCRIPT
The History of Facebook:10 Year Anniversary
Author: Brian Rice
Facebook Founded
Facebook, aka TheFacebook.com, was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
The first 3 user accounts created were held for testing making Zuckerberg’s ID #4 followed by Chris Hughes with the 2nd active user account.
Arie Hasit (4th active user) was the first non-founder account created and Sarah Goodin (12th active user) was the first female account created.Fact Source
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First Facebook Ads
Eduardo Saverin secured the first small advertising deals for the site.
The first advertisers were companies that sold moving services, T-shirts, and other products geared towards college students.
These ads began appearing on the site in April 2004.
Facebook now generates over $5 billion a year in gross revenue.
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Drop the “The”
Prior to a major homepage redesign, Al Pacino's face was on the original Facebook homepage. In 2005, the company paid $200,000 for the domain name Facebook.com and officially dropped the “the” in TheFacebook.com.
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Design Changes
Launch: 2004 Mini-Feed: 2006
2008
The “Cleanup”: 2010 Timeline: 2011
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“New” Facebook: 2008
User Growth
It took Facebook only 10 months to reach 1 million users.
Today, Facebook has over 1 billion active monthly users; roughly 75% of them access the social network via their mobile devices.
Every month users spend about 700 billion minutes on the site.
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Photo Sharing
In the Spring of 2006, Facebook added the capability of uploading mobile photos to your profile.
7 years later, the word “selfie” is added to the dictionary and named Oxford Dictionaries’ “2013 word of the year”.
On average, 350 million photos are uploaded to Facebook each day.
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Social Gaming
With over 100 million active monthly users, Candy Crush Saga is the most popular game on Facebook today.
Social gaming became so popular on Facebook that in 2011, Zynga goes public. The company is responsible for popular games such as FarmVille, ChefVille and CityVille.
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Most Popular Fan Pages
Top Musician: RihannaTotal Fans: 82+ million
Top Actor: Vin DieselTotal Fans: 58+ million
Top Athlete: Cristiano RonaldoTotal Fans: 68+ million
Top TV Show: The SimpsonsTotal Fans: 69+ million
Top Brand: Coca-ColaTotal Fans: 78+ million
Top Movie: Harry PotterTotal Fans: 67+ million
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Facebook Likes
In February 2009, Facebook introduced the “like” button to photos, notes and status updates.
Since launching there have been over 1 trillion “likes”.
In April 2010, Facebook gave publishers and bloggers the ability to add the “like” button to their websites.
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Facebook IPO
On May 18, 2012 Facebook held its initial public offering. They offered up over 400 million shares at a price of $38 per share; valuing the company at over $100 billion.
Previously Facebook reportedly turned down a $750 million offer from Viacom in 2006 and in that same year, Yahoo! attempted to buy the company for $1 billion.
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