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Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com)
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.
Facebook has over 2 billion users and manages to cross each and every one of them? I'm actually not surprised.
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Facebook has announced that it now has over 2 billion monthly active users.
Is it just me? I am happy and proud that I am not among the 2 billion. While I congratulate FB, I have seen no disadvantage to my not being on the platform.
Like I have asked before, what am I missing really?
Good! With so much of the country (and the world) on Facebook, it makes data mining very simple for us. Instead of having to use multiple marketing channels and marketing research, we can focus on Facebook to reach 90% of our customers. And, we love Facebook because they provide really just an incredible amount of marketing data on the users for free to advertisers. The advertising costs are not at all straightforward, but the price is worth it, considering how well we can target people.
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it is 10 million real users and 1.990 billion bots.
One of the topics discussed in "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez was how many users Facebook could have from a population of 7B people. Probably about 3.5B users (give or take). If Facebook currently has 2B users, they have 1.5B users to go after in more difficult to reach parts of the world. Once they hit 3.5B users, growth will stop and the business model outdated.
There are 7 Billion (roughly) people in the world, and the majority don't have Internet, phones, or power. If you are in doubt, look at the populations of India and China. The majority do not live in cities, but the sticks.
People who "facebook" have numerous accounts. Facebook in fact requires separate accounts for businesses. People had different accounts for work, different accounts for politics, different accounts for family/friends, and there are massive amounts of bot accounts which you can rent for cash.
I do not have a FB account that's active and admit I'm a rarity. Most people in the US do. I'd put the actual number of active individual users at 1/2 a Billion across the globe. Active daily? Much much less!
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Wait for them to try and explain the numbers when in a few years there are more "active facebook users" than there are people alive.
And the amount of time wasted on stupidity is staggering.
...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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