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Would it really matter if Facebook reaches 1 billion users by 2012?

June 3, 2011 by Paul Farol

One Billion Facebook Users in 2012 could mean a $100 Billion IPO Valuation

Of course, for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, it would mean the world and then some.

Perhaps the most important thing for Zuckerberg would be that he was right about his prediction.  When Facebook reached 500 million users last July, Zuckerberg said that it would be impossible for Facebook not to reach 1 billion users.

That’s roughly equivalent to 16 to 20 percent of the world’s population.  But that is not to say that there really are 1 billion Facebook users with one Facebook account each or that all of the 1 billion accounts are actually actively being used in a meaningful way.

Still, what if each Facebook user was actually worth $10 each?

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Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Adam D'Angelo, Chris Hughes, Dustin Muskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Facebook billion, Facebook IPO, Facebook users, Jeff Rothschild, Mark Zuckerberg, Owen Van Natta, Sean Parker

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