Facebook continues to grow and moves away increasingly from the competition. According to its own figures, more than a quarter of humanity in the “social network is now” active.
Facebook has cracked the mark of two billion active users. The milestone was reached on Tuesday, wrote to the founder and CEO of the world’s largest Online network, Mark Zuckerberg.
31. March had estimated the world’s largest Internet network, the number of users still on 1.94 billion, an increase of 17 percent year-on-year.
In Germany, Facebook is used, according to the latest Numbers from 30 million users at least once in a month and 23 million of them every day. Here was a debate about a Law, the wrong messages (“Fake News”) and so-called “hate comments” on Social Media platforms should contain, also by deletion.
The more Users are active, the easier it is for the companies in the Silicon Valley advertising to attract customers. By the end of 2016 Facebook reported a net profit for the year of about ten billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 177 percent compared to the previous year.
When is a user “active”?
The new user numbers doubling compared to October 2012, when Facebook reached one billion users. With two billion more than a quarter of the world’s population are now registered there.
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The company has defined a User if you are logged in to Facebook and within the past 30 days have logged in. Customers, exclusively in the case of the daughters of services, Instagram, and WhatsApp, are not counted.
The worldwide growth of Facebook is limited by the fact that billions of people still have no access to the Internet. The Online network wants to get even with the Initiative internet.org for the cheap or free Internet connections in the network. Facebook hits but against the wind, from governments and scepticism from network operators.
Facebook’s two billion users unrivalled. The short message service Twitter, estimated its user base last to 328 million, its Chinese competitor Sina Weibo comes to 340 million. The Messaging provider Snapchat, at the end of the first quarter, 166 million daily users. The Tencent-daughter WeChat, which is mainly in China, popular, had, according to its own data in may, after all, 938 million active users in the month.
bea/hb (dpa, reuters)