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I would love to understand what the 300 million number actually means. Does that mean they've signed up 300 million users but only half are active or some other
by fjabre 17y ago
I would love to understand what the 300 million number actually means. Does that mean they've signed up 300 million users but only half are active or some other percentage or do they actually have 300 million active users..?
Active = logs in once a week?
- jkincaid 17y agoI believe it's the number of users who have logged in in the last month.
- bdr 17y agoFacebook stopped measuring inactive users a long time ago. Anything you hear out of them refers to active users.
- secret 17y agoSo approx. the equivalent of the entire US population is active on Facebook?
- unalone 17y agoYes.
- tokenadult 17y agoAnything you hear out of them refers to active users. That's an interesting statement. Is there any way of independently verifying this? And is there any way of independently verifying churn of Facebook users who give up being active users by anyone's definition?
- drusenko 17y agothe majority of websites quote user numbers as the total number of users who have signed up (ourselves and myspace included, if i remember correctly) -- it's pretty standard. facebook goes out of their way to understate their numbers (compared to everyone else) and only talk about the total number of active users.
- tokenadult 17y agofacebook goes out of their way to understate their numbers As above, I find this to be an interesting statement, and I wonder how it could be verified. Is there a way for anyone outside of Facebook to identify unique users who post content in the most recent month? What means exist to check how many former Facebook users give up using Facebook?
- j_b_f 17y agoWhy does it need to be verified? Is it actionable? Basically it's a shitload of users.
- tokenadult 17y agoWhy does it need to be verified? Well, why does anyone care in the first place?
- j_b_f 17y agoTouche.