Mark Zuckerberg became the sixth-Richest Person on Earth today. This was due to the rise in the shares of Facebook after it delivered a fantastic result of its last quarter revenue. The Facebook founder’s fortune rose by $6.2 billion in trading on Thursday (today), making the 31 year old worth $47.6 billion as at 1.15p.m. New York time.

According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, this was enough to surpass the $45.9 billion holdings of Charles and David Koch.

Facebook reported yesterday that 4th quarter sales were up by 52% to $5.84billion and net income had more than doubled to $1.56 billion from the previous year.

In a related event, Mark posted on his Facebook page that about 1.59 billion are on Facebook every month

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