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No, the original was correct. That's 1.07B distinct people.

Crazier, IMO, is the DAU. 829 million log in EVERY DAY.

And how many are spam?

(I get friended by 3 clearly fake facebook accounts a week at this point ...)

That is weird. As these things go, I'm reasonably high profile. I'm also connected to some vertices of extremely high degree. I get zero fake friend requests per week.

Twitter? Flooded with fake connections. Facebook? I can't remember the last one I saw.

It can depend a bit on geography. Facebook.jp has a suspiciously high number of attractive young ladies in Ogaki (as in, literally, more than the number of 18 to 22 year old young ladies in Ogaki) who send friend requests for, I assume, the purpose of developing marks for scams.

I'm also one degree of separation from two countries in Southeast Asia and this causes me to get a lot of friend requests of dubious provenance.

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