Facebook grew from 12 million to nearly a billion users within six years

Evidence

Facebook appeared to be fine. Its user base increased from about 12 million in 2006 to 150 million in 2008 and would grow to almost a billion by the middle of 2012, when the company’s initial public offering (IPO) launched to great fanfare and a $104 billion valuation. Facebook was the crown jewel of the new social media startups that had emerged, mostly in San Francisco, in the wake of the dot-com bust of the late 1990s. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 14

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• QUESTION: Useful baseline figures for the influencer era’s enabling platform growth.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 14