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Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users by startupdiscuss on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:04PM (#14648251)
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.

Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users by jackmodern on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:09PM (#14648307)
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.
Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users by khc on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:30PM (#14649116)
Just curious, what political unrest in SE Asia? Are you talking about the Jakarta election?
Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users by jackmodern on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:44PM (#14658766)
something in India actually I think.
Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users by bllguo on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:08PM (#14648300)
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
Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users by startupdiscuss on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:47PM (#14648722)
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.

Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users by matt4077 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:48PM (#14649277)
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.

Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users by imr_ on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:00PM (#14648835)
I'm so glad I'm still in the majority.
Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users by tonmoy on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:41PM (#14648665)
I neither like, share heart or use groups, how ever I'd consider myself as an active user.