Mark Zuckerberg reveals Facebook now has two BILLION users and pledges to 'bring the world closer together'

Facebook has announced that it now boasts 2 billion monthly active users. CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared the milestone with his 92 million followers noting that the firm is ‘making progress connecting the world’

Facebook has announced that it now boasts 2 billion monthly active users, which means about 28 percent world's population is active on the site.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared the milestone with his 92 million followers noting that the firm is ‘making progress connecting the world’.

The announcement comes 13 years after Facebook made its debut on the web and less than five years after revealing it had hit one billion active users.