NEW YORK (AFP) - Facebook said Thursday it now has more than a billion users, giving the world’s biggest social network a major milestone despite a disastrous stock market introduction. Co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement, saying the number is “humbling. This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month,” he said in a statement. “If you’re reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honour of serving you. Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.” Interviewed on the NBC Today show, he called the number a major achievement.
“To be able to come into work every day and build things that help a billion people stay connected with the people they care about every month, that’s just unbelievable,” Zuckerberg said. Facebook said it reached one billion monthly active users on September 14 at 12:45 pm Pacific time. That includes 600 million mobile users.