Saturday, August 4, 2012

Facebook 'full of fake accounts'

The business about 83 million Facebook 955 million account duplication or spammers, retention, or account creation for the pets of people who just said. Source: AFP


Also growing global user is part of FACEBOOK's latest figures dubious source-highlight the concerns and may come from something designed for pets and spam, duplicate accounts page of the.


But grew up at the end of the second quarter, Facebook members 955 million and many 83 million United States Securities and Exchange Commission its quarterly filing that dubious, there it is.


Unique challenges "Despite US efforts to detect, to curb such behavior" to measure the usage of, said social networks.


That likely represents 4.8% of active users some - to maintain more than one account to the same user, - said to be duplicate accounts.Facebook mobile


Another 2.4% of business, group, or "bad" account is highly likely to use account for pets, including non-human entities, a 1.5% of spam and other malicious activity.


"Duplicate or in developed markets such as Australia and fake accounts United States low ratio means higher market development, such as Indonesia, Turkey and believe that Facebook said in its filing.


"We identify the continuous duplicate or false accounts, seeks to improve the ability of the company to estimate the total number of such accounts and are affected by changes in the methodology of estimation of such improvement or our"


The actual number of users is important to earn advertising revenue from the world's largest social network with Facebook. Some analysts can increase company revenue has expressed his doubts.


In morning trading, Facebook shares down 2.9% ( $19.39 ) $US20.27 from $US38 may offer price sharp fell 46 percent.

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