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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. Really? by BitterOak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Facebook has over 2 billion users and manages to cross each and every one of them? I'm actually not surprised.

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  2. Happy that I am NOT among the crowd... by bogaboga · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

    1. Re:Happy that I am NOT among the crowd... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 5, Funny

      People who love to declare that they're not on Facebook annoy me as much as the ones without TVs. Or vegans.

      Oh man, you'd absolutely love talking to me...

      I'm also an atheist, a Mac user, a Nintendo gamer, a "maker" and a 3D-printer owner, by the way. And since I'm also Canadian, I'm sorry if I annoyed you in any way, eh?

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  3. The non-user base is shrinking... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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 Once they hit 3.5B users, growth will stop and the business model outdated.

  4. 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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