Facebook attracts 700 mn users globally

The number of Facebook users reached around 700 million worldwide in the month of May, with the developing countries contributing the most, according to the data of statistics site Social Bakers.

"Facebook is still on the rise...Number of its total users is closing in to 700 million users," Social Bakers said.

Five countries, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico and Argentina, each contributed more than 1 million new users to social networking site Facebook in May.

At the sixth position is India with the addition of 918,140 new users last month taking the total users to 25.77 million in the country.

Best performer Brazil attracted 1.95 million new Facebook users in May taking the total membership to 19.09 million.

Brazil is followed by Indonesia with 1.59 million new users, the Philippines (1.33 million), Mexico (1.11 million) and Argentina (1.06 million).

According to reports, Facebook users are likely to reach 1 billion by 2012. Last July, when Facebook made 500 million users its founder Zuckerberg stated that there is no chance for the social networking site that it cannot reach 1 billion.

During the first quarter of 2011, the social networking site moved ahead surging from 585 million users to more than 665 million. There were nearly 80 million new users in three months.

Others in the top-10 list include Colombia, Egypt, Turkey and the UK.