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SHORTLY AFTER PURCHASING the virtual reality company Oculus VR for $2 billion, Facebook had more good news to announce by revealing more than a billion people access the site via mobile every month.
During a conference call discussing the company’s recent purchase, the company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed it had passed the one billion monthly active mobile users mark.
When Facebook announced its last earnings report in January, it had 945 million monthly active mobile users and has 1.2 billion users overall.
Instagram has also seen growth since its purchase back in 2012 with 200 million people now using the service every month.
When Facebook purchased the app back in 2012 for $1 billion, it had 30 million users and had only launched its Android app then. In the last six months alone, it saw 50 million new members sign up.
Since it was launched in 2010, more than 20 billion photos have been shared on Instagram to date.
Facebook has been busy with mobile services after purchasing messaging app WhatsApp for $16 billion as well as launching Facebook Paper, a redesigned version of the Facebook newsfeed that has only been released in the US.
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wounder how many FB users have double or tripple accounts for sites like this that require you to log in via an account .
Second paragraph, I assume you mean a billion not million monthly users?
Oops, that’s corrected now. Thanks for mentioning it.
Wait until the fixed video adverts kick in. Then we’ll see how much growth there us then…
like youtube. right pain in the arse. would love to see the stats on what 5 of youtube watchers are mad clicking that button ” you can skip the add in 5, 4, 3, 2 1……”
what %, not 5 sorry shift button not working properly.
what web browser do you use? I haven’t suffered an add on youtube in 2 years. plenty of add blockers out there.
and Richard, your spot on! I deleted my FB account because of adds, couldn’t have cared less about Like/Share this spam either. It’ll be “D’ya remember that Fakebook advertising thingy the aul pair used when we were kids?” why? because of the only certainty in the universe “Change”. I thought I’d be tapping in 180 on teletext for todays tv schedule for ever!
“When the Facebook announced its last earnings report in January, it had 945 monthly active mobile users…” If they can reach that golden 1000 mark, their future will be a little rosier ;) #pedantic #sorry
@Tom McCarthy & @Eoin LCCWDL: Apologies, that’s also corrected. If anything, I think this is a sign that I should really get some lunch now. I clearly need it.
Third paragraph, only 945 monthly users? I presume you mean 945 million.
Pity it wasn’t correct Quinton, we’d all make a packet on snapping up the shares!
“Facebook announced its..” Should be it’s
Nope
ha..grammer natzi got it rong. hahah
1 Billion people being constantly spied on…..
As long as they’re buying up there competitors they will continue to grow, until one refuses sell because will see the potential to over take them.
To sell
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