Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by startupdiscuss | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

startupdiscuss·

Monthly, active according to this source:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/27/15880494/facebook-2-billi...

And if you look at these stats from March 2017:

https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/

It could be either one. Daily active were 1.28 B and monthly active were 1.9 B so either way it is likely they have both crossed, or are about to cross the 2B mark.

View on HN

they crossed 3 months ago when I still worked there but didn't want to share it broadly because they thought it was a temporary spike due to some political unrest in SE Asia. Safe to assume they are over the hump by now.

Just curious, what political unrest in SE Asia? Are you talking about the Jakarta election?

something in India actually I think.

why would it be likely that daily active users ballooned 56% to surpass 2B? Seems like it must be monthly active in the discussion. Did FB do something recently that leads to your remark

This is from March 2017. I just thought that if the Monthly users were going to go over, they would have done so a while ago.

Another reply, from @jackmodern, indicates that they may have done that, so now I am less confident that it is the daily actives.

I checked the date, slightly confused. Just to make sure: could you send me the lottery numbers for the last two years?

Anyway, that Facebook about-us page also has an article from summer 2015 about hitting 1 Billion daily active users for the first time. Their growth really isn't that impressive any more (+280Million in two years), mostly because they've run out of people.

I'm so glad I'm still in the majority.

I neither like, share heart or use groups, how ever I'd consider myself as an active user.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com