Facebook reach milestone, hits two billion users

World's biggest social media network, Facebook has officially hit 2 billion monthly users, solidifying the company's position as the largest and most influential social network in the world.

As of this morning, the Facebook community is now officially 2 billion people!. "We're making progress connecting the world, and now let's bring the world closer together, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the milestone on the social network on Tuesday.

More than a quarter of the world's population now uses Facebook every month, the social network says.

The milestone comes just 13 years after the network was founded by Mr Zuckerberg when he was at Harvard.

The social media giant announced in October 2012 that it had one billion monthly users meaning it has doubled the number of its users in just under five years.

The firm's continuing growth will confound critics who have long predicted that the social network's growth would slow down as rivals such as Snapchat stole its users.