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Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by user_0001 »

austenallred wrote: post #56
Phlarp wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how many of those accounts are fake / sockpuppet / astroturf / paid likes

Again, totally guessing here, but I would guess a negligible minority

I would say you are wrong.

For a billion users, they need 1/6 of the worlds population. No way do they have that.

How many kids under 7? under 5? in the world. Don't have accounts. How many elderly over 80? 70? don't have accounts.

What is the % of non-"developed" countries? Not 1/6

Compared to people running multiple accounts (personal / professional/ seo accounts / spam accounts), now that I have heard of.

Regardless, they still have a hell of a lot of users, but 1b real, I doubt

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by nazka »

ajkjk wrote: post #130

I hate stuff like this: "A more open and connected world is a better world. It brings stronger relationships with those you love, a stronger economy with more opportunities, and a stronger society that reflects all of our values. Thank you for being part of our community and for everything you've done to help us reach this milestone. I’m looking forward to seeing what we accomplish together." It reeks of dishonesty.…

Actually I think he does believe in a "more open and connected world is a better world". Here is an acid test to see that it is true.

Facebook is investing a huge amount of money and resources[1] to connect the world. You may think that they do it only for money which is fair, but as Zuckerberg said on Bloomberg[2] there is not a lot of money to be made, if not at all, by fighting to give internet access from mid to poor countries. " If we were primarily focused on profits, the reasonable thing for us to do would really just be to focus on the first billion people using our products. The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined. So from a biz perspective, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for us to put the emphasis into this that we are right now. "

Even if he does it only for money, what he is doing will only be profitable after more than 10 years. And the profits won't be exciting because of the poverty, the small growth of these counties, and their capacity to have a better GDP per Capita. With $15 per day what can you do with that? And with this total amount to be spent how can you have any CPC being not close to 0? It will be better for these people in 10 years maybe or more but, not now unfortunately...

So his mission does seem to have a more open world and to connect people first. You have more in the interview.

[1]https://internet.org/projects

[2]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/mark-zucke...

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by jgalt212 »

onedev wrote: post #163
jgalt212 wrote: post #155

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ok, well, let's attack this problem from another angle using the data you cite. 968 mil customers, $4.04 Billion in revenue. That makes $4.18 in revenue per customer for the quarter. You'd be hard pressed to name another going concern even 1/10th of facebook's size with such low rev/customer numbers. So what's wrong? They are either miscounting customers, or they are horrendously bad at achieving any non-trivial reve…

I can promise you that in developed countries, revenue generated per user is much much higher. For example in the United States in 2014 it was ~$9 (and growing). When undeveloped countries start developing faster, revenue per user per year will rise sharply in those regions as well, thus increasing Facebook's overall revenue significantly. That's why both Google and Facebook are focusing heavily on getting internet t…

> When undeveloped countries start developing faster

But will they? If you look at G-7 vs non G-7 markets over any reasonable time frame, what evidence makes you expect that non G-7 revenues will come anywhere close to G-7 revenues on a per customer basis? And given how stringent the EU is on privacy concerns, perhaps EU revenues will forever remain significantly lower than US revenues on a per-customer basis.

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by oxfordbiochron »

Phlarp wrote: post #38
austenallred wrote: post #22

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My guess would be 1 billion unique accounts logged in today, via one means or another. Absolutely mind blowing.

I wonder how many of those accounts are fake / sockpuppet / astroturf / paid likes

It's probably quite a bit of fake accounts. We did a report on the ad fraud going on and our stats were very high for FB with bots. See Digital Ad Fraud report here. http://oxford-biochron.com/over-88-of-digital-ad-clicks-deem...

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by sd8f9iu »

dump100 wrote: post #166
sd8f9iu wrote: post #52

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What's the big deal if Facebook goes down? If it's important, I email (Gmail going down would be more dire, I think). Or I can text people if I have their number. Or send a Hangout. Or Whatsapp. Or Skype. Or call them. Facebook has monopolized social media, not all communication.

Will have to also consider, FB login is most popular 3rd party login, add to that facebook comments and other widgets on 3rd party sites. FB going down will have a substantial impact

That's true, I forgot about that. Thankfully, most of the sites I use that have FB login are just for entertainment, not communication or anything serious. But that's true.

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by speeder »

hellbanner wrote: post #107
speeder wrote: post #75

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I had a GF that worked solely to create fake facebook accounts. She alone had about 15 of them, she worked in a company that had about 10 employees that did the same thing as she did. The company that she worked for, was one of the smallest ones, there are several others that are much, much bigger.

Can you elaborate on the company's purpose? advertising?

Yes, it was a advertising company.

Beside creating false rumours for PR objectives, another use of the accounts was try to reach 5000 people in them (I dunno now, but when she was my GF facebook converted people accounts with 5000 friends into pages with 5000 followers, then ad companies could sell those to kickstart company pages).

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by speeder »

doe88 wrote: post #86
speeder wrote: post #75

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I had a GF that worked solely to create fake facebook accounts. She alone had about 15 of them, she worked in a company that had about 10 employees that did the same thing as she did. The company that she worked for, was one of the smallest ones, there are several others that are much, much bigger.

> I had a GF that worked solely to create fake facebook accounts. Yes but did she connect to all of them on monday by a mean or another? I think that's the fact it was on a single day that makes this number impressive.

Her fake accounts had as one of the objectives reach 5000 friends (when this happened you could convert it to a page with 5000 followers and sell it to a company).

To do this they created a program that searched the internet for pictures of someone in various situations, then prepared a easy-to-use library of photos to be uploaded every "x" period to look like a real person.

The account operator (or operators for some particularly prized accounts) would then log-in, post the photo scheduled, and write a post on the fly, the best operators could make the fake account look like a real person, fooling not only other users but bots, tracking software and whatnot.

The accounts that looked particularly real were very useful for PR efforts, some of the biggest clients were appliances manufacturers (example of one of them: GE), and one of the uses was for example one day try to distract the public after some bad news about washing machines causing accidents went viral, or try to create a counter-post that is viral too (in the washing machine case it worked, the viral post stopped being viral in 3 or 4 hours, and not even me remember what was the issue with the washing machines).

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by shmerl »

glandium wrote: post #161
shmerl wrote: post #65

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It's a social failure, not a technical one. There are decentralized social networks, but people are stuck in FB with various excuses despite constantly complaining about privacy and other problems.

There are decentralized social networks, but how many of them could actually scale to the size of FB?

Good question, since I don't think it was tested ;) With full decentralization they should be able to scale, but theory should be tested by practice.

Re: “One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

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Post by andrepd »

tedunangst wrote: post #82
andrepd wrote: post #66

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

So.... Does the Facebook mobile client count as using the web?

By the definition, yes, though I can't say how FB themselves count it.
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