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I see their numbers. How can I trust them? Mostly I see a lot of stuff trying to sell to you their service but I don't see how they actually collect their data.
by zitterbewegung 15y ago
I see their numbers. How can I trust them? Mostly I see a lot of stuff trying to sell to you their service but I don't see how they actually collect their data.
- anthony_franco 15y agoAs someone else mentioned, they use Facebook's own advertising tool to estimate the numbers. And their could be many things wrong with it. But if you put that number in the context of other metrics, such as Google trends (http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook&ctab=0&geo=us&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook&ctab=0&geo=u...), then the numbers make sense. Now the question is, are they gonna have slow sustained growth from now on like Skype (http://www.google.com/trends?q=skype&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=skype&ctab=0&geo=us&#...) or fall off a cliff like MySpace (http://www.google.com/trends?q=myspace&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=myspace&ctab=0&geo=us...)? Remains to be seen.
- zitterbewegung 15y agoI guess the real question is if they have reached market saturation or not.
- nikcub 15y agothat Google Trends result is filtered to show the USA only, yet the 'top languages' are, in order, Turkish, Spanish, Italian, French and then English in fifth. makes me very skeptical about their numbers