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I should have asterixed that with 'registered'. Updated numbers are out now as part of the msft press release: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532230 http

by nikcub 16y ago

I should have asterixed that with 'registered'. Updated numbers are out now as part of the msft press release: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532230 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532230 Facebook has 3x active over Skype - but as you mention, while Facebook are straight-up about their numbers, it is still hard to compare because of differing methodologies and different app types

zipdog 16y ago
I've wondered what impact Zynga has on artificially boosting Facebook's active user count. Zynga's games provide an incentive to operate multiple accounts, and counts about 200m active users, so if only 5% of those users were each running multiple accounts (say 5 extra), that's around 50m dupe accounts. (I figure thats an over-estimation though) Not to mention the other reasons people create dupe Facebook accounts