Hyderabad: social networking site Facebook said it has about 50 million duplicate accounts in more than 22 million accounts incorrectly classified as undesirable.
According to Facebook December 31, 2012, he 1,060,000,000 monthly active users (MAU) worldwide, including 71 million in India."We believe that, for example," duplicate "accounts (one account per user, plus support his main account) may account for about 5.0 percent of our Maus worldwide on December 31, 2012," Facebook said in a report on securities U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Facebook said he identifies the "fake" accounts, by dividing it into two categories - the user accounts are properly classified, where users have created personal profiles for companies, organizations, or non-human animal, as the accounts and events that are user profiles, which are defined to be designed for use in a manner contrary to the terms of service site as spam."As of December 31, 2012, for example, we believe the accounts are properly classified account for about 1.3 percent of our Maus around the world and can have unwanted accounts make up about 0.9 percent of our Maus over the world," says report.
Facebook said it estimates that the proportion of accounts that are duplicates or false significantly lower in developed markets such as the U.S. or Australia, and higher in emerging markets such as Indonesia and Turkey."Thus, our estimate of false or duplicate accounts may not accurately reflect the actual number of these accounts. We are always looking to improve our ability to identify duplicate accounts or false estimates of the total number of these accounts, and these estimates are subject to change due to improvements or changes in the methodology, "the report said.Facebook claimed 1060000000 as Maus December 31, 2012, an increase of 25 percent from December 31, 2011."Users in Brazil, India and Indonesia are the main sources of growth in fiscal 2012 compared to the previous year," the report said."We had 67 million MAU in Brazil from December 31, 2012, up 81 percent compared with the same period in 2011, 71 million MAU in India as of December 31, 2012, by 54 percent compared to the same period in 2011? 60000000 Mouse in Indonesia as of December 31, 2012, increased by 25 percent compared to the same period in 2011, the statement said.In addition, the site had 174 million MAU in the U.S. on December 31, 2012, an increase of 8 percent compared to the same period in 2011.
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