Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

facebook.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

191–197 of 197 posts

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

#191

Post by civilian »

jgalt212 wrote: post #155
civilian wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He doesn't. Here's some data. June 2015 averaged 968mil daily active users. From their quarterly report: http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=924562 And quarterly reports aren't something you add marketing lies to.

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 don't understand how FB revenue per customer relates to your original issue? "Let's attack this problem"--- what's the problem? Are you saying that facebook user attrition is lowering revenue per customer, even though they're still logging?

--- going off topic:

From your responses, you're definitely intelligent. But you're not using that intelligence to seek truth, you're just doing your best to tear down facebook. I'm sure it works in your other social circles, but we can tell what you're doing and that's where the downvotes are coming from. And it makes me sad that a fellow libertarian is not being nuanced and holistic in their thinking.

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

#192

Post by eropple »

crdoconnor wrote: post #180
eropple wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would your friends and family? Because that's the real trick. It has to be easier than typing "facebook dot com" on your laptop and your phone, anywhere in the world, to be a serious contender. I like the idea, but I don't see that happening.

That's my point. At the moment routers are in the same position smartphones were pre-iphone - they're functional beasts for 99% of people and while they can be 'smart' it's a niche geek activity and it's super tedious. Kind of like what smartphones were like pre-iphone. Once somebody makes an easy to use, beautiful router with a vibrant one-click-install app ecosystem (backup, calendar, photos, dropbox, email), I'm s…

Why would anyone care about being "closer" to their data? Photo uploads are already so fast as to be without considering. And by all indications, nobody materially gives a damn about Facebook picking and choosing what to show you. And Americans obviously don't care about privacy, either.

I think you're asserting a demand without any indications of its existence.

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

#193

Post by jgalt212 »

civilian wrote: post #191
jgalt212 wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 don't understand how FB revenue per customer relates to your original issue? "Let's attack this problem"--- what's the problem? Are you saying that facebook user attrition is lowering revenue per customer, even though they're still logging? --- going off topic: From your responses, you're definitely intelligent. But you're not using that intelligence to seek truth, you're just doing your best to tear down facebook.…

> you're just doing your best to tear down facebook

not exactly, just trying to tear down the PR BS that they are feeding world, and people are accepting as truth.

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

#194

Post by cLeEOGPw »

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.…

You don't seem to grasp the concept of PR yet.

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

#195

Post by cLeEOGPw »

ljoshua wrote: post #12

I'm curious to know what the metric is actually measuring. Is it one billion people that hit Facebook.com or used the mobile app? Or is it also counting people that might have triggered a hit just by browsing around sites with Like buttons on them while logged in, but didn't actually use Facebook? To some extent it doesn't matter because it's just such a massive and impressive number, but I'd be curious to know.

Also missed this information, but it's expected from such a vague post directed at non-tech users. My guess is that they counted the maximum of everything to blow up the number as much as possible - means it is separate user account hits for desktop, separate user account hits for mobile app, for messenger, API hits, etc, everything add up to one big number. Using this methodology it's not that surprising they hit 1 billion, since a single user could trigger up to 4 hits on average day and even non-users that have logged in cookie produces hits.

Also it's worth looking into the timing of this announcement. Logically, if Mark is as smart as I think he is, he would use these kind of announcements to boost share value and/or give publicity.

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

#196

Post by Mikho »

nazka wrote: post #182
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…

He just plans for the future. He needs to show some growth metric and these new users are that metric. Also, it's just a function of time when these new market would convert to highly paying one. Whoever is the first on the market that's who owns it. After all it is not the users who pay Facebook money. It is an advertiser who pays. And if there are people, there are always something to sell. Hence, ADs.

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

#197

Post by ajkjk »

cLeEOGPw wrote: post #194
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.…

You don't seem to grasp the concept of PR yet.

Why do you think I don't grasp it?

Why do you phrase your criticism as though you're speaking down to a child?

Post reply on HN