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"even though Facebook actually has 600 million active users" <-- does facebook have 600 million actual active users or 600 million accounts?
by veyron 15y ago
"even though Facebook actually has 600 million active users" <-- does facebook have 600 million actual active users or 600 million accounts?
- jfarmer 15y agoActive users
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- DisposaBoy 15y agoI have several accounts on Facebook that I use for "research purposes" and I think they'd be classed as active. I sign-in to them on occasion they all have at least 50 friends, the usual. With that said my real accounts - the ones that you'd be interested in: my so-called real accounts, one for family and one for friends have last seen activity approximately 5 months and 2 months ago respectively. So I think that brings us back to the question: Are you interested in active users or active accounts? There are thousands upon thousands of active accounts on Youtube, you've most likely seen them when you go to view a movie trailer. They're the ones that provide nice helpful non-spam(no sir) comments that are as expected voted up to the top of the comments sections all the time.
- Joakal 15y agoI'm not sure if I can believe it since websites tend to inflate their own numbers to look bigger. Is there any independent verification of such a number?
- dendory 15y agoThey described it once but it's definitively active accounts. I think it's something like any account that logs in at least once a week. The much more interesting number is Twitter. Only 15 millions Twitter accounts are active, out of 75 millions. src: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/01/26/15-million-active-twitter-users/ http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/01/26/15-million-acti...
- nextparadigms 15y agoI think it was more like a month.
- koko775 15y agoFormer Facebook intern. The number they track is number of accounts with activity in the past 30 days. Logging in to Facebook or performing some other action associated with your account is sufficient to trigger this.
- ams6110 15y agoSo ... I ask not being a FB user myself: if I have some kind of facebook "toolbar" (I assume there is one?) installed in my browser, and it's configured to automatically log in, then I am an "active" user even though I may not be interacting with FB in any other way?
- veyron 15y agoWhen you say "performing some other action associated with your account" does that mean: 1) you can perform actions associated with your account without having been logged in? If so, could you give an example. 2) someone else can perform an action, and that would mean you would be considered active even if you hadn't logged into Facebook in over 6 months. If so, could you give an example?
- Someone 15y agoI interpreted 'logging in or performing some other action' as 'we do not want to count users as active when they stop using Facebook without logging out'
- Aloisius 15y agoIs just visiting a webpage with Facebook connect or social plugins enough to count as being "active"? Or do you need to visit facebook.com itself?
- by 15y agoThat depends on how you define 'active'. A quick Google gives me some Facebook published statistics [1] which say that more than 250 million people log on every day. Goldman Sachs seem [2] to say "600 million+ monthly active users". [1] http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics [2] http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-has-more-than-600-million-users-goldman-tells-clients-2011-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-has-more-than-600-mi...
- jfarmer 15y agoFor Facebook "active users" always means "users active within the last 30 days."