Yes you are reading that right, Facebook is bigger than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey combined in terms of population. Facebook has a staggering count of 150 million users according to Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook).
Country population breakdown:
Turkey – 71,892,808
Canada – 33,515,000
Australia – 21,468,700
New Zealand – 4,280,000
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Total 131,246,508*
That, my friend, is really impressive! It makes you wonder how they keep their systems running smoothly, how they scale up rapidly.
Facebook has more than 10,000 servers and leverages mostly open-source software across a distributed architecture, with thousands of MySQL instances. “It’s almost a new challenge every day,”
Jonathan Heiliger (Vice President of Technical Operations, Facebook)
CNET interview
That’s not the only thing, Facebook has more than 10 billion photos! Some additional stats:
- 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site daily
- Over one petabyte of photo storage
- Serving over 15 billion photo images per day
- Photo traffic peaks at over 300,000 images served per second
Truth is, impressive is an understatement.
*Source: Wikipedia