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One of the world’s most popular social networking sites is continuing to grow, as Facebook hit 250 million users this week.

Facebook continues to be the leading social network and garner more users than its competitors. According to a report from comScore, Twitter had about 37.3 million worldwide users during May. LinkedIn currently has more than 43 million members throughout more than 200 countries.

In response to the site’s growing numbers, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote the following blog post:

“As of today, 250 million people are using Facebook to stay updated on what’s happening around them and share with the people in their lives. The rapid pace of our growth is humbling and exciting for us, and it affirms that people everywhere are realizing the power of staying connected to everything they care about on Facebook.

From the beginning, Facebook hasn’t been about building a website. Facebook is about all of the people using it and all of the things that are important to you. The 250 million of you on Facebook today are what gives Facebook life and makes the site meaningful to everyone using it, so we thank you.

Each person who joins makes Facebook better by adding a presence to the site that friends and family can connect with and feel closer to. For us, growing to 250 million users isn’t just an impressive number; it is a mark of how many personal connections all of you have made, and how far we at Facebook have to go to extend the power of connection to the billions of people around the world.

So today as we celebrate our 250 millionth user, we are also continuing to develop Facebook to serve as many people in the world in the most effective way possible. This means reaching out to everyone across the world and making products that serve all of you, wherever you are– whether through Facebook Connect, new mobile products, and the other things that we are building. We’re grateful to have all of you with us, and we look forward to helping connect the next quarter billion people on Facebook.”

Of Facebook’s 250 million users, 120 million log onto Facebook at least once each day. When the site began it was only available to college students, but today more than two-thirds of Facebook users are out of college and the site’s fastest growing demographic are those who are 35 and older.

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