Original Article: Facebook announced today that not only has it surpassed the 300 million-user mark, but the company is now making money. It was bound to happen sooner or later, and the company said earlier this year that it would happen next year.
Apparently they're ahead of schedule, because according to Founder Mark Zuckerberg, they became cash flow positive last quarter. "This is important to us because it sets Facebook up to be a strong independent service for the long term," he
Back to that 300 million number. To put this into perspective, the official 2008 population for the entire United States of America was just over 304 million. That's a lot of people on one social network.