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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by xNeil on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:44AM (#26467334)
Some did the math - the price Facebook would need to charge every user would be $11 a month. Sorry I can't remember WHERE I read it though.
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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by ign0ramus on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:04PM (#26467651)
That number seems wildly off. Facebook's annual revenue for 2020 was $85.97 Billion[1]. With 2.8 Billion monthly active users, they'd need to charge $3 a month to exceed that number.

[1]: https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by slymon99 on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:17PM (#26467873)
In the US it's much higher. Many users provide practically no revenue to FB (presumably FB wants the growth for the future).

https://www.adexchanger.com/platforms/facebook-made-almost-2...

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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by xNeil on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:37PM (#26469468)
Found the original article, I hope this helps :)

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/15/would-it-make-us-love-or-h...

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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by ign0ramus on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @01:30PM (#26479980)
Thanks for digging it up! It did help. As Slymon99 had pointed out, Facebook doesn't earn the same amount from each user. Something I hadn't taken into account.
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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by dzonga on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:52AM (#26467452)
it's from their quarterly financial reports. rough estimate. for developing markets they generate about 2$ per user. and in developed markets like $7 per user.
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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by dotancohen on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:40PM (#26468214)
When Facebook bought WhatsApp for 20 Billion USD, WhatsApp had about 1 Billion users, or slightly less. So that's at least 20 USD per user that Facebook paid.
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