https://finance.yahoo.com/video/facebook-removes-2-2-billion-200030458.html Cudos to FB for removing these. But my question is how come FB allowed creation of these accounts to begin with, given that sometimes millions of accounts were created by single entities? TC ~ 230k
This seems like a huge percentage of accounts. Isn't monthly active users around 2B? Granted, most fake accounts are probably not MAU. But seems huge nonetheless.
Using generated User IDs as a metric for anything other than press releases is silly. They’re cheap. Tons of users are generated through the sign up page that are then immediately put into varying states of disabled. Beyond that, if a non-disabled account doesn’t do anything for 2 years, but then is immediately caught and disabled when it comes back and tries to post spam, how do you measure that account during the two year period in a meaningful way?
Obviously there can be tons of shenanigans with fake accounts. But I mean with a world population of 7B, (5.5B ex China), and perhaps 4B ish with internet connectivity, 2.2B accounts represents more than 50% of possible real accounts. That seems like a big number. And there's probably way more than fb hasn't detected as fake yet. Can we even trust the MAU number?
Just checked. All of my fake accounts are thriving. Try harder, fb.
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Because they didn’t know they were created by single entities at account creation time. There isn’t a signup field that asks for (and enforces correctness of) some unique entity ID.
You should implement a system where you need to scan your face and license to sign-up. Then sell the data so I can buy it and start a facial recognition background check service to scan the web for embarrassing things. PM when this is ready