Thursday, 7 November 2013

India Leads In fake, Duplicate Facebook Accounts

An estimated 14.3 crore accounts on the popular social networking site Facebook may be false or duplicate, with a major chunk of them coming from developing markets like India and Turkey.

Facebook, which boasts of 119 crore accounts globally, in a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing said it estimates up to 7.9 percent accounts being duplicate, and up to 2.1 percent and up to 1.2 percent accounts being user-misclassified and undesirable, respectively.The social networking giant said its monthly active users (MAUs) stood at 1.19 billion by September 30, 2013.

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