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philwelch on March 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Left Google

Except if you go backwards from Facebook, there was at least an order of magnitude fewer people on MySpace, at least an order of magnitude fewer than that on Hi5 or Friendster, and so forth. Facebook reached a critical mass that the others never did.

nextparadigms on March 14, 2012 [–]

That's not true. Myspace had 200 million users before Facebook even got a chance to catch-up with them.

philwelch on March 14, 2012 | [–]

Facebook says they have 845,000,000 "active" users. log10 of 845,000,000 is 8.9 or so, log10 of 200,000,000 is 8.3, leaving about 0.6, or most of an order of magnitude. And Facebook hasn't peaked yet.

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