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Surely this has something to do with the sheer number of users they have, right? There's only like 8 billion people on Earth and Facebook has 2 billion monthly
by flunhat 9y ago
Surely this has something to do with the sheer number of users they have, right? There's only like 8 billion people on Earth and Facebook has 2 billion monthly active users. If you take away 1.5 billion people in China who can't/don't use Facebook, this means that it has 2 billion out of like ~6.5 billion possible users. And many of those people are either children (<13 years old), don't have reliable access to internet, and/or have no use for social media. So it really doesn't seem that bad to me (unless I'm missing something important).
- jsemrau 9y agoI have a company page/account where I daily automatically post updates. I guess that counts into this number.
- underwater 9y agoPages are not counted as a user in their DAU counts.
- jsemrau 9y agoSure, but there is a user who is the admin for the page. This "admin" is entirely a bot.
- underwater 9y agoYou have a bot that logs in as a regular user? I’d be surprised if that is common, there are APIs for automation that wouldn’t count against DAU. And you would run the risk of getting your admin account blocked.
- rgbrenner 9y agoI think this is spot on.. but you've actually understated FB's market penetration, because only 1/2 of the world population is on the internet.. as of 2016: 3.4B. 750m of those are in China.. so 2.7B. (of course it'll be a bit higher than this, because it has certainly grown somewhat since 2016.) And from that, now you can exclude children, reliable access, and people who dont want to use it, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...