Facebook catching up on MySpace

Facebook has hit 100 million active users.Last month 25th,fast growing social network Facebook has hit the 100 million users mark, according to a statement by Dave Morin, the company's Senior Platform Manager.Facebook's main competitor, MySpace, passed the 100 million mark over two years ago.

While Facebook got its start at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2004, most of this recent growth is coming from outside the US. MySpace took 3 years after launch to hit that magic number; for Facebook it took 4 years and 6 months.

MySpace' s "100 million users" announcement was met with lot of criticism.It was pointed out that many of those user accounts were, and active users are what really counts.

Facebook, on the other hand, has always claimed they only count active accounts. If that remains the case,then the unofficial announcement - taken from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook status update - that Facebook has 100 million users is perhaps even more significant than MySpace’s two year old milestone.

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