The Great Firewall of China has blocked sites such has Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook for years now. He Xin, a student at Yanshan University in Qinhuangdao recently got past the restrictions and climbed "the wall". He said, "Very few of my classmates and friends can climb over the wall, so I can't add them as friends on Facebook yet". He used one of the virtual private network services that got him to sneak by the censors. Facebook users in china has doubled in the past month and will double again with in the next six months. Even with the potential growth, the number of Facebook users in China will be very small compared to the nation's 457 million Internet users, which is the worlds largest. The United States has the most Facebook users, with almost 150 million, there are 621 million users world wide. But with the recent use of social networks providing for protests in Egypt, this will not help with breaking down the Great Firewall and getting access to Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter.
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