Facebook grows and makes money Facebook发展壮大并开始盈利
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The world's largest social networking site just got bigger with the announcement it has 300 million active monthly users from around the globe.

世界上最大的社交网络站点Facebook宣布每月在全球范围内有3亿活跃用户。

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Facebook's audience has doubled since the start of the year

Facebook also revealed that it has started making money ahead of schedule.

The company had not expected to start turning a profit until sometime in 2010.

"This is important to us because it sets Facebook up to be a strong independent service for the long term," said Facebook founder2 Mark Zuckerberg.

"We are succeeding at building Facebook in a sustainable(足可支撑的,养得起的) way. We are just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone.

"We face a lot of fun and important challenges that require rethinking the current systems for enabling information flow across the web," Mr Zuckerberg said in a blog post.

"Milestones3"

The news that Facebook had passed these two benchmarks was made at TechCrunch 50 in San Francisco, a conference for start ups.

Facebook hit the 250m user mark back in July. It is estimated that the site is gaining around 5m new users a week or 50m in the last 75 days.

"Passing these milestones to me means we can continue to fund our development and our innovation and be self sustaining(支持的,持续的) as we grow this network," Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's vice1 president of engineering, told BBC News.

"We think 300m is a just a step on the way to get as much of the entire world on the social network communicating with the friends and family and the people they want to communicate with."

"That Facebook is able to continue this growth and build a "cash flow positive" business is an impressive feat," said Nick O'Neill of AllFacebook.com.

"If the company can cover the cost of scaling to 1 billion users and still manage to break even, there's no doubt that the company will have a great opportunity to rake in(大量敛集) billions," added Mr O'Neill.

Facebook's Mr Schroepfer said the company has worked hard to get more money flowing in than out.

"The growth of the network has certainly helped us go cash positive and the engineering team has done a lot of innovation on our ad products as our business is primarily advertising4 funded.

"As more and more of the world gets on the network, people and advertisers realise the power of sharing information whether its about a movie preview or a car." said Mr Schroepfer.

Look out Twitter said Ben Parr who is associate editor at the social media blog Mashable.com.

"If Facebook continues to open up its platform and adopt Twitter's best features, it could spell trouble for the Twitterverse. The world's largest social network is on the warpath(准备作战的,发脾气的)," warned Mr Parr.



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1 vice NU0zQ     
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
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  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
2 Founder wigxF     
n.创始者,缔造者
参考例句:
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
3 milestones 9b680059d7f7ea92ea578a9ceeb0f0db     
n.重要事件( milestone的名词复数 );重要阶段;转折点;里程碑
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  • Several important milestones in foreign policy have been passed by this Congress and they can be chalked up as major accomplishments. 这次代表大会通过了对外政策中几起划时代的事件,并且它们可作为主要成就记录下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Dale: I really envy your milestones over the last few years, Don. 我真的很羡慕你在过去几年中所建立的丰功伟绩。 来自互联网
4 advertising 1zjzi3     
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
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  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
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