Just a few months after its fifth anniversary, Facebook Inc. Wednesday is set to welcome its 200 millionth user.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post Wednesday morning [US time] that the social networking site is on track to welcome its 200 millionth user before the day is out. To celebrate, the company has hooked up with 16 charities and advocacy groups that have created virtual gifts that users can buy for each other. Zuckerberg noted that 90% to 95% of the proceeds go to the charities with the rest going toward administrative costs. None of it, he added, goes to Facebook.
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In less than eight months, Facebook has doubled its user base by signing up 100 million people from around the world, officially hitting 200 million today.Its population is now higher than Brazil’s and Japan’s.The ubiquitous online hangout, available only to college students when it opened in 2004, has been growing rapidly since opening up to anyone who wants to sign up.
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