Today’s number is 401 million!

401,076,122 to be exact. That’s how many pics Photo Finder has scanned in our first 30 days. Let’s break it down…

That’s more than:
13 Million photos scanned / day.
550 Thousand an hour.
9 Thousand a minute.
150 per second.

We’re 30 days out from our launch, and since that happy day we’ve identified more than 700,000 people (and tagged them for you). We are well ahead of the pace we expected, mainly because you, our users, have a lot of friends. We mean A LOT.  The average number of photos in your social network (your photos + your friends’ photos) is an astounding 101,000! Do any of you work?

With more people using Facebook to share their photos than any other service, we’re glad Photo Finder ensures you’ll always be able to find yourself, your friends and your family. We can’t track how many of these photos are actually in focus, but it doesn’t matter because Photo Finder will still find you!

Achieving these kinds of numbers with our small group of Alpha testers is very exciting, but now we want to let more people use Photo Finder. Every day we release more invites to join the application, so if you’ve registered for Photo Finder, expect to be hearing from us soon.

To our Alpha testers – thank you for helping us become so  successful!  We couldn’t have gotten here without you, and we’re only going to make your experience better.  We also know that (like so many other activities) looking at photos is more fun with a friend.  So during the next couple of weeks we’ll be giving each of our alpha testers 3 invites.  This will roll out gradually to our alpha testers over the next couple weeks, so keep an eye out.  You’ll be able to invite up to 3 people to add Photo Finder and share the love.  (More invites will come, we promise!)

As always, if you have questions, comments, suggestions, or anything else you want to say feel free to email us, comment here on the blog, or tweet at us.