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Firefox Could Be the Real Facebook Challenger

Source: ReadWriteWeb

May 05, 2009

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Firefox doesn't keep track of the number of users it has but Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, said today that the company estimates that there are 270 million people using the browser. That's 35% more users than Facebook has signed up for accounts (200 million), and almost triple the number of people Facebook says log in to the social network every day (100 million).

Why compare user numbers between a browser and a social network? Because there's every reason to believe that the two technologies are converging in the near term future. Here's why we believe that Firefox should be Facebook's biggest competition.

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These numbers from Firefox are pretty conservative. DownloadSquad's Lee Mathews estimates that the real number could be closer to 340 million Firefox users. That's three and a half times the number of people Facebook says log in to its service daily.

This isn't an apples and oranges situation, either.

Though we may not be sure about his prediction that Google will act before Firefox, we think Forrester's Jeremiah Owyang

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Comments (1)

Resilient Michae,

May 06, 2009

Very interesting insights.