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Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the unprecedented-scale dept.

Facebook has announced that it now has over 2 billion monthly active users. From a report: That's up from the 1.94 billion total that the company cited as part of its most recent earnings report in May. Mark Zuckerberg shared the news directly, and Fast Company has a story on Facebook's constant efforts to keep pushing growth upward. "It's an honor to be on this journey with you," Zuckerberg wrote. Facebook's other apps are faring well, too: Messenger has over 1.2 billion monthly users and Facebook-owned WhatsApp tallies a similar figure. Twitter, by comparison, has 328 million monthly active users. Instagram has over 700 million.

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  1. If it's like Twitter when I worked there... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    it is 10 million real users and 1.990 billion bots.

  2. That works out to 60 billion times a month... by Nova+Express · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...that users had to switch their News Feed back to "Most Recent" from the "Top Stories" setting that Facebook switches to despite their preferences, every single damn day!

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