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It would be more impressive if TechCrunch were better at math... 13% of Facebook's monthly active users would be 100 million, not 10 million.

I was thinking this too. How could the editor not catch this?

They don't have editors.

10 / 750 equal to 1.3%

Am I missing something?

Nope. Techcrunch just did their math wrong.

Still, 10MM users in 2 Weeks in a closed-invite-beta. I know, they have a 1B userbase but it means something is really buzzing this time.

Sharing a billion items per day is obviously false as it would imply 100 items shared per user on average.

Unless they're counting everyone you're sharing to as a different "share"?

and +1s

That must be how they are counting it. If larry page shares or +1's 10 things, then it would count as 1M shares.

I doubt they're counting once per recipient, but people could easily be sharing 100 items on average if you count photos , reshares, and +1's.

Don't forget comments!

Comments make up the bulk of my activity.