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Won't they have to give a more detailed accounting of users now that they're public? Surely it's a very important thing to know if you hold facebook stock.



No. If they could make billions of dollars in revenue with just 100 users, that would be fine with investors.


So you're saying you honestly believe that how many Facebook users has is not important to Facebook investors?

Or are you just taking a valid question that was asked, "will they have to disclose their counting methods", and trying to start a philosophical argument about how to value companies? Because it looks like that's what you're doing.


The number of users implies that if they have more users, they will be able to generate more revenue. I'm stating i don't know what their future plans for revenue generation are but, in the end, that's all that's gonna matter.


Investors don't care, but advertisers do.


As long as their valuation depends on speculation, number of users matters.




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