Facebook Passes 500 Million User Milestone, CEO Says
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Facebook Inc., the world’s most popular social-networking service, reached 500 million users today, up from about 400 million in February, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said.
The company is marking the milestone with a new application called Facebook Stories, which lets users share their experiences on the site, Zuckerberg said today on the company’s blog. The service, which supplanted News Corp.’s MySpace as the No. 1 social network two years ago, started in 2004 at Harvard University, where Zuckerberg was a student.