Facebook beefs up user numbers again, especially in Asia

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Facebook’s third quarter earnings released today reveal it has over two billion users worldwide every month, a symbolic threshold passed in the spring, and it has increased its subscriber numbers across the globe.

Every month, 2.072 billion people use Facebook, up 16 percent from a year earlier. The social network now has 239 million monthly active users in the United States and Canada (+4.3 percent), 364 million in Europe (+6.4 percent), 794 million in Asia and the Pacific (+26.2 percent) and 675 million in the rest of the world (+15 percent).

Facebook also has a total of 1.368 billion daily active users, another increase of 16 percent year-on-year. That breaks down to 185 million in the U.S. and Canada (+4 percent), 274 million in Europe (+7 percent), 476 million in Asia and the Pacific (+29.3 percent) and 433 million in the rest of the world (+14.8 percent).

On the business front, 88 percent of the company’s advertising revenue comes from mobile (up by 4 percentage points in one year). JB

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