{"id":278705,"date":"2010-02-04T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T02:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/02\/04\/as-it-celebrates-its-sixth-birthday-facebook-surges-to-400-million-users\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T02:22:12","slug":"as-it-celebrates-its-sixth-birthday-facebook-surges-to-400-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/278705","title":{"rendered":"As It Celebrates Its Sixth Birthday, Facebook Surges To 400 Million Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2f167_cakeshot-1.jpg\" class=\"shot2\" \/>It&#8217;s been six years to the day that Facebook launched, and the company&#8217;s massive growth is showing no signs of slowing down.  Minutes ago, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a note to the site&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.facebook.com\/blog.php?post=287542162130\">blog<\/a> celebrating the milestone.  In it, he says that Facebook will cross the 400 million user mark this week.  And it&#8217;s been less than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/09\/15\/facebook-crosses-300-million-users-oh-yeah-and-their-cash-flow-just-went-positive\/\">five months<\/a> since the social network hit 300 million.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate, the company is holding its own version of a party \u2014\u00a0it&#8217;s Hackathon time.  That means all of the company&#8217;s engineers are about to embark on all night coding sessions.  Previous Hackathons have given birth to things like Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/07\/22\/facebook-video-now-serving-1-billion-views-a-month-including-this-amazing-zuck-impression\/\">Video<\/a> and its new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/02\/facebook-hiphop-presentation\/\">HipHop<\/a> PHP converter.  Zuckerberg also says that we&#8217;ll be seeing some new product launches tonight (we&#8217;ll be covering them as soon as each goes live).<\/p>\n<p>In light of the event, here&#8217;s a collection of screenshots of Facebook profiles and homepages from the last few years (Facebook actually put most of this gallery together in honor of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/02\/03\/on-the-eve-of-its-fifth-birthday-a-facebook-design-retrospective\/\">fifth birthday<\/a>, but it&#8217;s always fun to look back at how far the site has come).  Also note that the last screenshot in the timeline has its days numberd \u2014\u00a0Facebook is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/04\/facebook-begins-rolling-out-new-redesign-pics\/\">rolling out<\/a> another redesign.<\/p>\n<p>A lot has changed, much of it for the better. 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