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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by traek on Saturday November 11, 2017 @03:22PM (#15677972)
3 billion monthly active users. They hit 2 billion this summer [1].

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

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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by username223 on Saturday November 11, 2017 @08:11PM (#15679132)
> 3 billion monthly active users.

I was trying to suggest that a lot of those "users" are not sources of income/data. I'll bet a lot of them are either bots, or humans smart enough to use an ad blocker. And most of the MAU humans are probably in a 10-year age range, having signed up when FB was useful.

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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by maherbeg on Monday November 13, 2017 @12:45PM (#15688292)
I would disagree again here. Significant numbers of their users use their apps only/majority of the time. Can't block ads on closed platforms!
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