Facebook Pulls One Billion Users in a Single Day, Reaching New Milestone

Mark Zuckerberg revealed the "important milestone" on Facebook, appropriately.

Professional Jesse Eisenberg look-alike Mark Zuckerberg revealed a new milestone for Facebook on Thursday, revealing over 1 billion users on a single day. The record, in more specific terms, means that 1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook that day to communicate with others:

Though playfully maligned by many as a place for someone's parents and grandparents, Facebook still reigns supreme in terms of sheer social media power. The company recently celebrated its victorious 10th birthday, a landmark achievement in more ways than one. Through substantial and consistent growth, the company is now estimated to be worth more than $135 billion.

Facebook recently introduced its answer to Siri: a digital personal assistant simply known as "M." The substantial upgrade is integrated into the site's popular Messenger service, providing an admittedly impressive sense of ease with the process of speaking to your phone:

Today we’re beginning to test a new service called M. M is a personal digital assistant inside of Messenger that completes tasks and finds information on your behalf. It’s powered by artificial intelligence that’s trained and supervised by people.

 

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