Facebook iPhone app has 105m users?

Facebook has posted some pretty impressive numbers regarding its mobile users recently, including a developer saying there are more than 150 million active mobile Facebook users. The site itself has more than 500 million members.

- 12 million are using the Android client
- Nearly 59 million are using the Blackberry client
- 105 million are using the iPhone client*
- The rest are using clients built for Palm, T-Mobile's Sidekick and more.

*Note these numbers were pulled at 11:20 a.m. EST and are updated frequently.

Wait a minute ... 105 million? Steve Jobs indicated at WWDC in June that the 100 millionth iOS device (spanning iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) would be sold that month. With the flurry of iPhone 4 sales since then, it's no surprise that there's more than 100 million iOS devices out there in the wild. But are all of them really running Facebook?

You can log into multiple Facebook accounts from a single iOS device, and those probably count. The number provided by Facebook isn't the number of downloads the app has had, but the number of people actually using it. The client itself is still ranked among the top 10 free App Store apps. Even so, a penetration rate hovering somewhere around 90 percent -- if you take into account the number of iOS devices sold since June and the fact that there's not a Facebook app for the iPad -- is a little hard to swallow.

[via Mobile Entertainment]

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Source: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/400

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Ryan

With the recent launch of Facebook Places these numbers are about to explode. Users now have a motivation to use their smartphone for Facebook rather than just the convenience of using it while being on the go.

Ryan
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August 27 2010 at 3:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Trey

Numbers do seem odd. I have an itouch and whenever I update via facebook app, my update says it comes from iphone app. So, not all of this is from the iphone.

August 25 2010 at 12:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

anotherone

mobile is more than just apps - if its mobile users in general could also mean mobile web/wap, sms, etc. sure in parts of world where smartphone penetration isnt as high in US (and ppl here on older, non smartphone devices which are still the majority), the mobile web and sms #s are pretty big.

August 24 2010 at 8:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Saac

I have probably about 5 different friends that dont have an iPhone that have used my iPhone to log into their facebook. Plus my girlfriend and past girlfriends, and my family... so thats 10 people + .So just because someone doesnt have an iPhone doesnt mean they cant go on somebody elses and log on... Could it be including those numbers as well?

August 24 2010 at 5:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

NewsReader

Facebook Still sends Push notifications to my old 3GS, which I have upgrade to an iPhone 4...... My Girlfriend apparently gets to see all my alerts....

August 24 2010 at 5:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Captain Ahem

"Even so, a penetration rate ... a little hard to swallow."

What was happening in the author's mind while this sentence was being written?

August 24 2010 at 5:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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kinto

dunno, but i just blue myself.

August 25 2010 at 12:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

forddorr

There's got to be a better way to say that.

August 26 2010 at 5:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shaun

I don't think the developer is saying 105 mil use the facebook app. I think they are saying 105 mil use facebook in some form of app... Tap tap revenge etc. I may not use the facebook app itself but I may interact with facebook through another app. And with multiple users playing games and updating their status with a recent high score or something... That number is plausible.

August 24 2010 at 4:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

TheGeek

This just proves that you always have to take Facebook's numbers with a grain of salt. (or in most cases half a pound or so)

August 24 2010 at 2:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

UberDeft

Ding Ding Ding!!!! Best alternative is the actual website and make a home link button, but you will have to login sometimes still.

August 24 2010 at 12:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tim

AH I see now lmao my bad sorry!

~Tim

August 24 2010 at 12:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply