Facebook hits milestone: 1 billion people logged in on Monday
Earlier this week, 1 billion people logged into Facebook in a single day, marking a new milestone for the social network.
When Facebook reported its second-quarter results in July, the company said it had an average of 968 million users logging in daily.
But Monday of this week marked the first time a billion users logged in on a single day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Thursday.
Looked at another way, one in seven people on Earth logged in, he wrote.
Zuckerberg did not break out the statistic further, or say what might have driven the high number of log-ins on Monday.
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