Facebook just added more daily active users in the US than Twitter added monthly active users in the world
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
It also increased its number of daily active users to 968 million, with 164 million coming from the United States and Canada.
That's an increase of 32 million total, and 3 million in its most saturated market.
Although the total missed estimates - analysts had hoped Facebook would reach 970.5 million DUAs - it's still a tremendously big number.
In fact, Facebook's growth in US users who use the service every day trounced the growth in the global number of monthly users reported by Twitter, which reported its Q2 earnings on Tuesday. Twitter only added 2 million new monthly active users.
Facebook added more *daily* active users in the US (its most mature/saturated market) last q than Twitter added MAUs *globally*
- Jan Dawson (@jandawson) July 29, 2015
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