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More reasons for this person to be extremely happy. Alex Washburn/AP

Were you on Facebook recently? You and a billion others...

It doesn’t look like the Facebook juggernaut is going to slow down anytime soon.

FACEBOOK SHOWS NO signs of slowing down after announcing another successful earnings call for the latest quarter (July – September).

The service now has 1.5 billion monthly active users – gaining 60 million more monthly active users in three months – and 1.38 billion are accessing the site on mobile. Of that number, 727 million are mobile-only users, likely driven by its efforts to expand in emerging markets like India.

On average, 1.01 billion people access the service daily while 894 million people use it on their phones every day.

As for profits, it continues to make more and more money, increasing its net income to $891m (€820m), an 11% increase from the $806m (€742m) made last quarter.

Video saw one of the biggest increases with 500m users now watching video every day, bringing the total number of views up to 8 billion.

While a view on Facebook means a user watched it for more than three seconds (others like YouTube tend to make it longer, around 30 seconds), Zuckerberg said it was “pretty amazing how quickly it’s growing, but there’s a lot more to do.”

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Other major takeaways from the earnings call were:

  • More than 9.5 billion photos are now sent on Facebook Messenger.
  • One billion people use Facebook on Android.
  • 80 million photos are shared every day on Instagram.
  • One in five of the minutes people spend on their phones per day is on Facebook and Instagram.
  • 925 million people are using groups and in some countries, more than half the population use them.

The majority of Facebook’s revenue is generated through ads in the US and Canada, and is hoping its expansion into other countries will help increase advertising revenue further. When asked about expanding into China, a potentially massive market for Facebook, Zuckerberg said it was a “complex situation.”

“You can’t have the mission of wanting to connect everyone in the world and leave out one of the biggest countries,” he said. “We need to try and figure out a way forward on that issue.”

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:50 PM

    Some stunt he tried to pull yesterday. Is this what we should expect for the next 5 years? Trumpian politics. May god have mercy on us all.

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    Mute Tim Brennan
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:54 PM

    @Anthony Curran: You anti state shinners Don’t get we rejected you and will continue to do stick to your Kangaroo courts

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:59 PM

    @Tim Brennan: yet Sinn Féin still got more TD’s than Fine Gael

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:10 PM

    @Anthony Curran: the shouty Shinners were the ones pulling stunts yesterday

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    Mute Billy Murphy
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:11 PM

    @Tim Brennan: Funny how anything said against this government is suddenly “mUh sHinNeRs, mUh MarY LoUuu” it’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad. Are the authors and mods still running fake accounts for revenue aye?

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    Mute Anthony Curran
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 4:04 PM

    @Johnny Wilson: The shouty Shinners, as you call them, were the ones defending democracy yesterday, while FF/FG were attempting to subvert it. Shocking abuse of power.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 5:01 PM

    @Anthony Curran: The country could use some Trumpian politics..

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    Mute James Keogh
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 5:17 PM

    @Anthony Curran: You are purposely ignoring the fact that there were other minority Parties involved ! SF supporters only see what they want, BLINKERED AS USUAL !

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    Mute Michael Burke
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:47 PM

    All the pieces of the pie, and positions at the trough sorted then

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:32 PM

    @Michael Burke: The obstructionist bullies sorted out.

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    Mute Louis Jacob
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:53 PM

    Great to see the annointed one begin his term as twoseach with a bloody nose.
    The spectre of Michael Lowry will hang low over this government.
    What on Earth were they thinking?

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    Mute thomas molloy
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:37 PM

    @Louis Jacob: Fifteen years trying to damage Lowry failed. One of the longest failed witch hunts so far.

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    Mute Louis Jacob
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:49 PM

    @thomas molloy: Oh dear God. You’re there completely spineless or hopelessly thick. I hope for your sake it’s the first one.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:52 PM

    @Louis Jacob: You’re either…

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 4:12 PM

    @Louis Jacob: Did you forget to mention the Slab Murphy Northern Bank and where did Doherty get the cash to pay for his house build

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    Mute Freda Peeple
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:02 PM

    Zero leadership qualities, has overseen the mess Ireland has become over 30 years. Slithery thin lipped prik of a man

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    Mute pee wee
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:06 PM

    @Freda Peeple: achieved more than you, all you do is sit around in your underpants in your mother’s spare room, being a pathetic little keyboard warrior

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    Mute Brian Dunne
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:07 PM

    @Freda Peeple: play the ball, not the man.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:09 PM

    @pee wee: I don’t have time to incinerate you again haha

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    Mute Johnny Wilson
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:11 PM

    @Freda Peeple: nothing to stop you leaving

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    Mute Louis Jacob
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:12 PM

    @Freda Peeple: But he promised change in the debate no?

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:12 PM

    @Freda Peeple: you haven’t time for trolling?

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:13 PM

    @Johnny Wilson: Why would I leave? I’ll be here long after the traitors. “Johnmy Wilson” another one of the profiles belonging to that social outcast

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:15 PM

    @Freda Peeple: I’d say your da’s hole is sore, your ma loves begging the poor little man lol

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:20 PM

    @pee wee:Weird, always with the default deviant creep stuff, zero wit or intelligence involved. The inner workings of your brain is in the gutter. Where you were conceived

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:22 PM

    @Louis Jacob: yes “change” 30 years of change.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:23 PM

    @Freda Peeple: I told you to up your game or I’m not participating, such an amateur

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:53 PM

    @Freda Peeple: He’s like a butterfly

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:49 PM

    Dark clouds coming (not the storm)

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:49 PM

    @New Boy: What, then?

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:10 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: he was on the guinness last night.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:50 PM

    Martin, see u next Tuesday

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:08 PM

    Can he do a good job?
    Unfortunately not.
    Never should be in office.
    Time to reassess our system.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:10 PM

    @Chop Chop: Didn’t turn out quite right but still works :-)

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    Mute Brian D'Arcy
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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:59 PM

    I’ve never witnessed such efforts to cripple to democracy as this government have attempted. Even during the sham supply and confidence that allowed Fianna Fáil to remain opposition while supporting the Blue-Shirts, and again, it was indenpendents that cane bounding forth to be the government’s little dog that came bounding forth to sit on their master’s knee to be rubbed and given treats for doing their bidding. And you have cowards on here attacking Sinn Féin, if they ever tried a move like that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael would be all over it, but not so when they do it, people like that are poodles, just there to be rubbed on the belly and told that they are good.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:01 PM

    @Brian D’Arcy: you obviously don’t like democracy, typical little shinner mindset

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:20 PM

    @Brian D’Arcy: Hilarious stuff, and utterly pointless. Yesterday was a storm in a tea cup, people have always said that TDs don’t speak enough in the Dail, but the reaction, threat to democracy blah blah blah is Hilarious, it was used to scupper a legitimate process, and the antics of SF especially, Matt Carty was like a football hooligan….no respect, no professionalism from him yesterday.

    I’m getting back to my chores now as that’s more important than political handbags .

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:56 PM

    Today is truly a great day indeed, a day in which Ireland can stand tall and proud, a day which, I’m sure, will bring even greater days, weeks, months and years ahead.
    Congratulations, An Taoiseach Micheal Martin.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:06 PM

    @pee wee: nice trolling there peewee

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:07 PM

    @pee wee haha praise from a celibate simpleton, sounds about right

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:09 PM

    @Freda Peeple: pathetic trolling, up your game or I’m not participating

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:12 PM

    @pee wee: Still sore from last night? So is your mammy

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:14 PM

    @Freda Peeple: I don’t suck you ma’s jugs anymore, she too old and I don’t really like cheese

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:17 PM

    @pee wee: . Pee Flynn.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:18 PM

    @pee wee: Haha primary school trolling, stunted wetwipe of a man :)

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:20 PM

    @Freda Peeple: what a comeback, BTW, tell your ma I want mine back

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:25 PM

    @pee wee: Nice, stealing jokes off Jimmy care now? You have NOTHING haha, Iltje one thing you do all day, and you are still brutal :) stick to the peddle and cranking,

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:27 PM

    @Freda Peeple: really looking forward to giving your ma the toilet seat tonight. :)

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:31 PM

    @pee wee: It sad how you have developmental problems, obsessed with mammys and twisted sexual stuff. If only you were nurtured instead of neutered you might have had a chance

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:34 PM

    @Freda Peeple: pot kettle, go eat some crayons ya child lol

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 4:06 PM

    @pee wee: no you prefer them young, very young you fk nonse

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:15 PM

    This government elected on a wet evening in November with a low electoral turnout, they will go out in a storm. They tried their best skulduggery below deck, and they failed with their scheming underhand tactics and failed,little do they know they have awakened a sleeping giant, they will not have a mandate to lead the country, their is no way they can fix everything with this leadership of corruption, doomed to fail.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:56 PM

    M Martin thanks his wife and The only party in the Dail not to applaud Mary Lou and co. Need I say more as nasty a bunch as you will ever encounter

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:08 PM

    @Tim Brennan: Why would SF clap for a guy who considers them and their supporters beneath him? Grow up ffs

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 3:35 PM

    I can’t believe we have actually elected Martin to a second term as Taoiseach. He literally achieved nothing in his first 2.5 years in the role and he utterly failed in every aspect of the economy. Under his watch, we had record-high inflation that hit nearly 10%, an 8.5% unemployment rate and did absolutely nothing productive. He made the conscious decision to implement the disastrous lockdown policies that didn’t work and multiple studies have indicated this. As Minister for Heath, he’s responsible for creating the useless monstrosity that is the HSE and brought in the nanny-state smoking ban. As Minister for Enterprise, he oversaw our economy collapsing in 2008. As Minister for Foreign Affairs, his obsessive antisemitic hatred of Israel was grating and embarrassing. He’s such a failure.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 5:21 PM

    @William Jennings: BELIEVE IT, AND LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT ! Stop crying and learn to live with a Majority Electorate, END OF ! ! !

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 6:25 PM

    @James Keogh: The only person who isn’t “believing” is you James. All I’ve said is purely factual information. Martin has literally achieved nothing in any role that he’s had and is yet another example of an Irish politician continually falling upwards. Also, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael didn’t get a majority, so stop lying. They only got a combined vote of 43%, the lowest in Irish history. You have no sort of coherent rebuttal to the points I made. Is that because you know I’m right?

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:44 PM

    All of his own making the fiasco yesterday

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:42 PM

    What a waste of space that thing is

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 3:16 PM

    FFG now under full control of israel and lowry

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:05 PM

    A bit of stability wouldn’t go amiss… this is the 3rd Taoiseach in the last 10 months

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:11 PM

    ‘I shouted out, “Who killed the Kennedys” when, after all, it was you and me’ is always a good quote after elections when people put self interests over national interests when voting and then have the audacity scream blue murder about the actions of the government, and that goes for peoplr who don’t vote as well. Pilitics defines everything in our lives, whether we like it or not, so stating that there’s no-one to vote for is a cheap cop out.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:18 PM

    @Brian D’Arcy: The CIA assassinated JFK.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 2:21 PM

    @Brian D’Arcy: Might define your life most of us couldn’t give a shyte.

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 4:57 PM

    Congratulations to Micheál Martin on his election as Taoiseach. A huge honour for him personally and for his family. His not without faults though. He supports Nemo Rangers LOL!

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 1:58 PM

    *Entry of the Gladiators begins playing*

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 6:17 PM

    Never ending circle

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    Jan 23rd 2025, 5:00 PM

    It’s a diverse Republic alright! Getting more diverse every day :⁠-⁠[

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