Facebook Grows Mobile Team And Reports 15 Million Active Mobile Users

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Facebook Grows Mobile Team And Reports 15 Million Active Mobile Users

Facebook said on its blog today that it’s beefing up its mobile team and making improvements to take advantage of a growing number of people who are using the social network while on the go. Since the beginning of the year, the number of active mobile users has jumped from 5 million to 15 million. One of the most recent features added to the mobile Facebook site is the ability to comment on your friends’ status updates.

“We didn’t expect that we would receive nearly a million status comments in the first 24 hours,” Facebook mobile developer Wayne Chang wrote. “This may not seem like much, but it was actually part of a really important change. As people on Facebook share more and more information each day, status updates have become one of the most popular ways for people to connect quickly and easily on the site.” Users can access site by going to m.facebook.com, or if the users have a smartphone, to an “extended site” at x.facebook.com.

Tricia Duryee

@triciad Nov 11, 2008 1:29 AM ET

Posted In: Research & Metrics, Social Media, facebook

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luca

I have problem whit my facebook no my mobile..Nokia E51..i don.t understand why,please help me..error when i open the windows..

Matt Meeks

With 120 million Facebook users, and 220 M Internet users in the United States as of 2008 (Nielsen Net Ratings), about 54% of all Internet users are on Facebook. Based on Q2 2008 Nielsen mobile numbers, there are 102 M mobile web users in the US. Of those users, 15% are on Facebook. With mobile Web traffic on the rise, this is very interesting news that shows the power of the mobile device to extend beyond voice communications into social networking . I, however, am a bit surprised by this news, as I expected these numbers to be higher. It seems to me that the younger demographic that skews towards the mobile Web and Facebook would show a higher adoption of Facebook mobile. This lack of adoption is probably due to many of the limitations that are are still presented by the mobile device. It won't be long though.

Brad Mays

More proof that the social Web is in an intermediate state with the mobile Web being the next, long-term evolution. Increasingly mobile-social and geo-social applications and connections will drive the adoption and development of new technologies. There's something to be said for having everyone you know and everything you need anywhere you go.