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04-09-2014, 08:32 PM
Facebook Reaches 100 Million Monthly Active Users in India
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Last August we **ted that Facebook (http://www.techinasia.com/tag/facebook/) had 82 million (http://www.techinasia.com/facebook-82-million-users-in-india/) active users in India. But **w the social network has hit an important milestone, surpassing 100 million monthly active users in the country.
Javier Olivan, Facebook's vice-president of growth and analytics, told India's Eco**mic Times (http://eco**mictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/33446768.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst) that the landmark number was reached on March 31st. 84 percent of those 100 million Facebook users in India access it via mobile.
India is set to hit a quarter of a billion web users sometime this year.
SEE ALSO: Facebook creates election tracker as a guide for India's 814 million eligible voters (http://www.techinasia.com/facebook-india-election-tracker-app/)
Despite Facebook's strong growth in India - up from a mere eight million users in 2010 when Facebook opened a local ****** - the US-based site is still facing growing rivalry in the nation from messaging apps. Facebook-owned WhatsApp has 40 million active users in India, and rival chat apps like WeChat and Line are also battling to grow their numbers in the mobile-first country. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/100-million-active-users-facebook-india/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Last August we **ted that Facebook (http://www.techinasia.com/tag/facebook/) had 82 million (http://www.techinasia.com/facebook-82-million-users-in-india/) active users in India. But **w the social network has hit an important milestone, surpassing 100 million monthly active users in the country.
Javier Olivan, Facebook's vice-president of growth and analytics, told India's Eco**mic Times (http://eco**mictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/33446768.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst) that the landmark number was reached on March 31st. 84 percent of those 100 million Facebook users in India access it via mobile.
India is set to hit a quarter of a billion web users sometime this year.
SEE ALSO: Facebook creates election tracker as a guide for India's 814 million eligible voters (http://www.techinasia.com/facebook-india-election-tracker-app/)
Despite Facebook's strong growth in India - up from a mere eight million users in 2010 when Facebook opened a local ****** - the US-based site is still facing growing rivalry in the nation from messaging apps. Facebook-owned WhatsApp has 40 million active users in India, and rival chat apps like WeChat and Line are also battling to grow their numbers in the mobile-first country. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/100-million-active-users-facebook-india/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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