Facebook has reportedly crossed 100 million users in India, making it only the second country in the world to cross the milestone, Times of India reports. The social networking giant crossed the mark on March 31, but still lags behind the US, which has about 183 million users.
This new milestone means, Facebook garnered about six million new users in India in the space of two months. As of January 30, Facebook had 94 million users in India of a total of 1.22 billion users globally. Of these, Facebook had revealed that nearly 76 percent (73 million) users accessed the social network on mobile phones.
In a chat with ToI, Facebook’s Javier Olivan said that the next milestone was to cross the 1 billion user mark in India.
Facebook has been aggressively pushing its service towards users in India by giving them free or discounted access. In December last year, Facebook tied up with Airtel to give its prepaid users free access to the social network in nine regional languages. Additionally, it had also tied up with Idea to give its 2G and 3G users free access to the service, as well as give free access for new Asha device buyers.
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