The number of Facebook users reached around 700 million worldwide in May, with the developing countries contributing the most, according to the data of statistics site Social Bakers.
“Facebook is still on the rise...number of its total users is closing in to 700 million users,” Social Bakers said.
Five countries, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico and Argentina, each contributed more than one million new users to social networking site Facebook in May. At the sixth position is India with the addition of 918,140 new users last month taking the total users to 25.77 million in the country. Best performer Brazil attracted 1.95 million new Facebook users in May taking the total membership to 19.09 million. Brazil is followed by Indonesia with 1.59 million new users, the Philippines (1.33 million), Mexico (1.11 million) and Argentina (1.06 million).
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