According to web monitoring site HitWise, Facebook leapfrogged into pole position for the first time in March this year when more Americans visited Facebook than Google for the week ending 13 March. Facebook garnered 7.07% of all internet traffic for that week, while Google achieved 7.03%. That number indicates an increase of a whopping 185% for Facebook compared to the same week last year, but just a 9% jump for our interweb overlords at Google.
After India (1.18 billion) and China (1.33 billion), Facebook would be the third largest country in the world, and guesstimates being slung around the web reckon that Facebook could be hitting the billion mark and rivaling India's population by 2012.
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