David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yeah, this stat is crazy. By November of 2005, they were getting 230 million page views daily, which means that they had passed Google in page views. Google, the company started six years earlier. The reason is because when you’re on Google, you do one or two searches, and then you go to your destination. On Facebook, you get caught in an hours-long trance of looking at everybody you know and what they’re doing. Which was already the case when it was basically text only. But adding photos, oh my God, every photo is a page view. With such a small user base at that point in time, I think probably certainly less than 10 million users, to have 200 million-plus page views every single day and be passing Google in traffic is wild. Let’s say it’s 10 million. It’s 23 page views per day per person. That’s assuming that every single person who is a monthly user is accessing it every day and loading a page 23 times. In our mobile age now that doesn’t really sound much. I bet the number of photos that someone scrolls through on Instagram is way higher than that. But for the time, that interactivity was just nuts.…

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