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25% of Facebook Users Access the Service via Mobile Phones

by Terrence O'Brien on September 6, 2009 at 01:26 PM

Facebook Has 65 Million Mobile Users
According to the Facebook blog, the social networking service now has 65 million active mobile users, which is about a quarter of the current 250 million active users of the social network around the world..

The first mobile version of Facebook launched in 2006, and as more and more people have started connecting to the Internet from their cell phones, the pocket version of Facebook has taken off. Only eight months ago, Facebook mobile had only 20 million active users, but thanks to the explosion of Android phones, the iPhone, and more widely available 3G coverage, that number grown exponentially.

There are so many ways to connect to Facebook on-the-go now that its almost impossible to keep track of them all. The list includes two different mobile version of the Web site, one of which is specifically design for touch screen phones like the MyTouch 3G, an SMS service, and apps designed specifically for the iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Nokia, HTC handsets, the Sidekick, and countless other lower end handsets.

The growth of Facebook Mobile and the hype for services like Twitter prove that the next frontier, and evolution, for social networking is clearly mobile. [From: Facebook Blog, Via: Silicon Alley Insider]

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