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Facebook Reports First Quarter 2014 Results

49 points| arajendiran | 11 years ago |investor.fb.com

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[+] aaronbrethorst|11 years ago|reply 

    Mobile MAUs were 1.01 billion as of March 31, 2014,
    an increase of 34% year-over-year.
That's crazy. 1/7th of the world's population logs in to Facebook from a mobile device at least once a month.

(edit: as it turns out, these numbers are from the 1st quarter. Q2's show 1.07 billion mobile MAU: http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=861599)

[+] ChuckMcM|11 years ago|reply
And this is the challenge for Google. If mobile users reliably go to Facebook daily, that is where people will want to advertise to them, if they are spending all of their time on their mobile rather than their laptop or desktop, then mobile advertising will be more important than advertising in the laptop/desktop space.

Interesting times.

[+] double051|11 years ago|reply
Could they be reporting monthly active 'devices' as 'users'?

More clearly, could one user on an iPad and Android phone count as two different 'active users'?

[+] wozniacki|11 years ago|reply
Is there a universally agreed metric of what a mobile MAU constitutes?

Is there a generally agreed unit of time spent per instance of log in activity, to qualify as a MAU?

Or just the very act of stumbling into the FB app (somehow), through the myriad ways possible out there, still constitute a MAU?

I understand that this does not count (?) API calls (justifiably).

All these years in, I just want to assure myself that we are still not in the era of sketchy metrics and non-standard parameters. Thats all.

[+] danhak|11 years ago|reply
First of all, Facebook reported Q2 2014 results today, not first quarter. The OP is months old.

Secondly, what's with this new HN trend of people submitting quarterly financial results of publicly traded tech companies. It is usually not newsworthy outside of financial media.

[+] twerquie|11 years ago|reply
Either I'm interpreting this too simplistically or they're doing a great deal better than I expected.
[+] debt|11 years ago|reply
That's because HN lives in an echo chamber of FB hate while 90%(close to a billion people) of FB users actually find it as an indispensably useful tool.