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A ridiculous amount of people used Facebook in its biggest ever day of traffic on Monday

Published 08:34 28 Aug 2015 BST

Conor Heneghan
A ridiculous amount of people used Facebook in its biggest ever day of traffic on Monday

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Something tells us not a whole lot of work was done on Monday.

We all know people who can’t go a minute or an hour, let alone a day, without logging into their Facebook account, so it’s perhaps no surprise they reached a significant milestone this week. On Monday, over one billion people visited the social media site in a single day for the first time in Facebook’s history. drevil Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg celebrated the fact that one in seven people in the entire world logged onto a site he created with a Facebook post last night and a little video was even made to mark the occasion.

We just passed an important milestone. For the first time ever, one billion people used Facebook in a single day.On...

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, 27 August 2015

We made this video to celebrate all you've done to help our community connect one billion people in a single day. It's an amazing milestone. I hope you enjoy.

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, 27 August 2015
Of course, by either liking something, poking someone, posting every single picture of your baby or checking out what that attractive former classmate of yours is up to these days, we can all feel we had a part to play in Facebook's success. Pats on the back all round folks.

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A ridiculous amount of people used Facebook in its biggest ever day of traffic on Monday