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Re:Facebook's killer app is here. No, it's Not places. by InACloud on Monday August 23, 2010 @07:04AM (#1626419)
FACT CHECK: 500 million users is over 25% of the world's online population.

Actually, the last time I checked http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html shows the world population at 6.8billion. So 500 million would only be 7% of the worlds population. Impressive, but nowhere near 25%.

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Re:Facebook's killer app is here. No, it's Not places. by dagw on Monday August 23, 2010 @07:13AM (#1626437)
Not everybody in the world is online, and thus not part of the worlds online population.
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Re:Facebook's killer app is here. No, it's Not places. by luxative on Monday August 23, 2010 @07:19AM (#1626442)
Online population: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm (approx 2 billion)
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Re:Facebook's killer app is here. No, it's Not places. by dhimes on Monday August 23, 2010 @07:15AM (#1626440)
Don't forget the word "online" in the original statement.
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