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> Half of their customers I have no side to take in this discussion, but just wanted to point out that the USA is not the only country that exists. I know it s
by sevg 3y ago
> Half of their customers
I have no side to take in this discussion, but just wanted to point out that the USA is not the only country that exists. I know it sometimes seems that way on Hacker News, but I promise you that there is a big wide world out there that has nothing to do with the Supreme Court :)
- dewey 3y agoThe topic is about a large US tech company though.
- dc3k 3y agoThe post they're replying to says "half of their customers", which implies 100% of their customers are in America, which is obviously completely wrong.
- xigoi 3y agoIt also seems to assume that all women in the USA have had an abortion???
- sevg 3y agoThe USA makes up only about 8-10% (250M) of total Facebook users (3B) based on a quick search I just did. They're not even the largest user base by country, which is apparently India.
- aembleton 3y agoBut they are the most valuable cohort in terms of revenue https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average-revenue-per-user-by-region/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...
- EZ-E 3y agoHow the hell does Facebook generate 56$ of revenue per US user per quarter? Are selling ads and selling personal information really that lucrative?
- filleokus 3y agoWhat is the share of revenue from US? I would guess it's not thaaat far from 50%. The median income in the US is like 20x of India, so presumably ad views from the US ought to be quite a lot more valuable. I would guess EU + US is the vast majority of revenue.
- michpoch 3y agoThat doesn't matter if we're talking about % of users that could be affected by some local-US law.
- bagels 3y agoIt's published, but last I recall us users are worth revenue about 4x per user in Europe and >10x users from Asia
- znpy 3y agoare you talking about individual users or the whole aggregate? because if the former, then users from asia likely are largely outnumbering users from the USA
- hengistbury 3y agoFacebook might be a US tech company, but the US isn't their largest user base, that crown currently goes to India according to Statista: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-based-on-number-of-facebook-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-...
- dewey 3y agoThe number of users matters much less for FB. The amount of users which can be monetized matters much more and the CPC for US users is always much higher than other countries.
- rakoo 3y agoAt this point, with the impact they have on the global stage and the fact that they will only pay their taxes where they want, it's a but irrelevant to keep this frame of thoughts.