Every month, more than 850 million photos are uploaded on Facebook—making it the largest photo-sharing site. With photos being so popular, we're constantly working to improve your experience in sharing them.

We noticed that many of you wanted to create larger photo albums to display all the images from a trip or event in one place. So we've now expanded the number of photos an album can hold from 60 to 200.

We tested this limit increase for a couple months, finding that it resulted in significantly more photos being shared as well as a better experience. With our new Haystack storage system, we were also prepared to store and serve more photos than before.

Over time, we hope to give you even more options to share photos efficiently.


Chris, an engineer, is about to create a huge photo album from his recent trip to New York City.

Since we launched video last year, more than 45 million videos have been uploaded to Facebook with approximately 100,000 new videos added each day. Starting today, you'll be able to upload higher quality videos to Facebook and also embed your Facebook videos on other websites.

Higher quality video means we'll be supporting higher resolutions—as much as 1280 by 720 pixels (720p)—which means crisper quality than was previously possible on Facebook. Plus, we've upgraded our audio, too.

Sometime in early January my roommate (also a Facebook engineer) and I were talking late at night in the office and shared a realization: we both had tons of videos we had taken with our phones and digital cameras, and had nowhere to put them. Of course, plenty of video sharing sites already existed, but none provided useful distribution to our friends (like Facebook's Photos application). Now that consumer mobile phones and digital cameras are perfectly capable of taking good quality video, we knew that it was time to build a video application on top of the social graph.