Facebook user numbers reach 1.86 billion

[Kevin Lancaster]

Facebook user numbers reach 1.86 billion

Facebook has released its Q4 2016 earnings report, which shows that the platform now has 1.86 billion monthly users.

Of those users, 1.74 billion access the service on mobile devices.

 

[sajunky]

Sans sajunky

 

[Idiosyncratic]

Does that number include my 250 fake accounts?

 

[^^vampire^^]

or the hundreds of thousands of other spoof accounts used to automatically add likes to certain pages?

 

[dugbo1]

Yeah whatever. Bull***** numbers. Half the accounts are fake. But they need ad revenue so it must be true.

 

[Arthur]

Thank goodness I'm not part of it.

 

[HeftyCrab]

I go on once every 2 months and see I'm not missing anything.