Facebook reaches 200m-user milestone

15:00 9th April 2009

Yesterday, social network Facebook announced that it expected to sign up its 200 millionth user during the day.

As well as enabling individuals to communicate online, the site has also provided companies with a number of marketing activities.

It was recently used by Barack Obama during his campaign to win the US presidency.

On his Facebook blog, the site's founder Mark Zuckerberg said: "Technology has made it easier and faster for people across the world to share more and more - from the daily activities of their lives to events that impact their communities."

He added that growing to 200 million users is a good start but that the company is still working to try and build "a service that everyone, everywhere can use".

The social networking site was recently praised by drinks manufacturer Coca-Cola.

A pair of fans set up a Facebook group in honour of the soft drink, but since then more than 3.3 million users have joined and Coke has become the administrator.

Michael Donnelly, Coca-Cola group director, told the Financial Times that the firm has "an opportunity we didn't have in the past".

He said Facebook was a great way to reach a huge number of prospective customers without having to spend any money.