For one, One advertiser told me how he paid $200 to an Indian operation for 2,000 Facebook accounts. That means FaceBook's account numbers must be highly inflat

For one, One advertiser told me how he paid $200 to an Indian operation for 2,000 Facebook accounts. That means FaceBook's account numbers must be highly inflated. Their growth is inflated. Facebook only counts active accounts (used in the past month), not total accounts registered. This means the stated number of accounts is not (Number of real accounts + Number of spam accounts) but is actually (Number of real accounts + Number of currently used spam accounts) I suspect the two expressions above are very different from each other.