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If that number is still roughly accurate, it is a pretty impressively low number. I imagine that the average percentage of fakes/bots/etc. for web services is much higher.



0.087 * 900M = 78.3M

Roughly the equivalent of all of Germany's population (with 80M) being Facebook fake users.

Nevertheless I agree.. Impressive low number. Due to the scale of user base this still translates into a ridiculous amount of fake users


Actually, I think the scale is precisely what makes the number seem so low to me. It's a damned hard accomplishment to grow to 900M users while only picking up 80M fakes along the way.

80M is a large number, sure. But there are probably sites and services with 100M supposed users that have 80M fakes (some dating sites come to mind, as did MySpace in its prime). And I'm probably only exaggerating a tiny bit.




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