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Which means at least as many people used the web. Good going, Internet!

• motti_s 11y ago
  Not necessarily, Facebook has mobile clients.
  • tbomb 11y ago
    It's still over the internet, right?
    • alanh 11y ago
      Of course, but web ≠ internet.
      • r0m4n0 11y ago
        Probably closer to a Venn diagram where the internet encompasses the web and more. SMTP, FTP etc. Splitting hairs now
  • benwerd 11y ago
    I admit to loosely using the "mobile clients are specialist browsers" line of thinking here. Facebook definitely uses links and HTTP.
  • renownedmedia 11y ago
    Facebook mobile clients don't use the Internet?
    • cryptoz 11y ago
      The web is not the same as the Internet, though. The web is an open platform built on open protocols on top of the Internet.
      • StavrosK 11y ago
        Interesting question: What is the Web? HTTP, or HTTP+HTML? Facebook mobile clients use HTTP, so are they using the web?
        • andrepd 11y ago
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
          • StavrosK 11y ago
            Huh, this Wikipedia site is pretty nifty, I didn't know I could look stuff up on it, thanks!
            • andrepd 11y ago
              You're welcome!
          • tedunangst 11y ago
            So.... Does the Facebook mobile client count as using the web?
            • andrepd 11y ago
              By the definition, yes, though I can't say how FB themselves count it.
    • myth_buster 11y ago
      I think they are coming from the web vs native app frame.
  • austenallred 11y ago
    It looks like mobile-only is 44% of FB use (FB doesn't distinguish between app vs. Internet), and 87% of FB users are on mobile. Source: https://beta.grasswire.com/story/177/facebook https://beta.grasswire.com/story/177/facebook
• tracker1 11y ago
  In all fairness, this is the resources and development access of a single organization though... I'm consistently amazed at how well the likes of FB, Google/Youtube, AWS and Netflix actually work by those organizations. Yes there is the occasional down time where things are partially down... just the same that they manage to handle the sheer volume of traffic is truly impressive. Most businesses don't really need more than what a large co-located server offers in compute and storage... To create a system that services requests from hundreds of millions of simultaneous users throughout the world is genuinely impressive. Of course it does have its' cracks... The mobile browser interface is more and more gimped as time passes, and the comments for posts that don't have hundreds of replies is equally borked (don't see all replies, or your own half the time). "Eventually Consistent" has it's price... but the reward is handling hundreds of millions of users at one time.
• rokhayakebe 11y ago
  Well, you should know to many FB is their internet.