Facebook: nearly 2 billion users and a turnover that peaked – CNET France

quarterly results continue to fall. After Apple and Samsung, it is the turn to Facebook to reveal its financial results for the second quarter 2016 and the first social network in the world is doing very well. He claimed, just over 1.7 billion active users, an increase of 15% compared to the first quarter of 2016.

All lights are green

Logically level finance , everything is fine ; the group announced that it exceeded 2 billion profit in the second quarter of 2016 against $ 719 million the previous year. Revenues were up 59%, he spent a little over $ 4 billion to $ 6.4 billion.

Obviously advertising is the main engine of growth with revenue up 63% in the space of a year. Importantly, the moving part is the one that generates the most revenue; 84% of earnings against 76% the previous year. Precisely on mobile applications (Facebook and Messenger) are up 20% to 1.57 billion monthly active users.

Facebook crushes the competition, including Twitter, which no longer knows the public with only 3% more users, but still gives off $ 602 million of revenue.