This past week Mark Zuckerberg messaged 1 Billion people to announce that FaceBook had obtained it's 1 Billionth subscriber.<p>At the click of a button and in a matter of seconds - he was able to message 1/6th of the population on the planet.<p>The Power To Message 1 Billion People in the click of a button is a Super Power.
If you take apart the word "message" into its actual meaning, "left some words somewhere that 1 billion people could go read sometime" then it is not particularly astounding. It's not as if it was whispered into their ears.
I'd be interested to know if it would be somewhat of an engineering feat to setup a message from Mark to every Facebook user through the messages tab. I wouldn't call this 'sending a message' though.
An interesting point, but not unprecedented.<p><i>Four years ago, the [Beijing] opening ceremony was estimated to have been seen by more than 1 billion people worldwide, and the official average rating was 593 million.</i>