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So apparently the app works because you can access someone's facebook page with the URL www.facebook.com/"#". With the number being the numbered profile they are.

Its curious, however, that Zuck is actually number 4 (www.facebook.com/4), numbers 1-3 are missing. I wonder why?




Source, Dustin Moskovitz: 1-3 were accounts used to test registration. Evidently it only took Mark 3 tries to clear the bugs. Link: http://qr.ae/NMpX6 (Does not require login)




For some reason https://www.facebook.com/undefined is different from a regular 404 like https://www.facebook.com/null


I see Zuck as #1, Moskowitz as #3 and so on...


Click on the picture, it links to "facebook.com/4" (=zuckerberg), etc. There are several gaps in between the first 50 ID numbers. Probably some early test/fake accounts as well as people who deleted/deactivated their account. Eduardo Saverin (co-founder) has id 41 and Joe Green has 42.




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