Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users

Re:Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users by samstave on Thursday October 04, 2012 @11:07AM (#4612637)

Wouldn't it be great if there were an MAU attack against Facebook where a group built a system to create billions of active accounts to the point where the MAU number was greater than the computing population of earth?

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Re:Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users by stephengillie on Thursday October 04, 2012 @01:04PM (#4613240)

You're asking how long it would take for a hacking group to expand FB to 12 billion accounts?

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Re:Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users by samstave on Thursday October 04, 2012 @01:08PM (#4613264)

Not 12 billion - the number just needs to greater than the number of computer/internet users on earth.

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Re:Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users by stephengillie on Thursday October 04, 2012 @01:18PM (#4613309)

If it's close (8 billion), people will likely ignore it as either a rounding/math/counting error, or as "those people who have a 2nd account for their dog".

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Re:Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users by samstave on Thursday October 04, 2012 @05:51PM (#4614579)

There are 7 billion people on earth, there are 2.3 billion with Internet access as of 2011 - FB claims that 40-ish% of Internet users are monthly actives, which is clearly BS, so you don't need to get it anywhere near 8 billion. You simply need to get it near or above actual Internet access capable people.

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Re:Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users by stephengillie on Thursday October 04, 2012 @06:17PM (#4614685)

So more like 4 billion.

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