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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Q4 2015



"100 million hours of video are watched daily on Facebook."

  • More than 1.59 billion people now use Facebook each month and 1.04 billion every day, a growth of nearly 200 million people monthly and a 148 million people daily.
  • More than 1.44 billion people use Facebook on mobile devices.
  • More than 950 million people received a notification that a friend or a loved one was safe in a crisis.
  • More than 8 million people used 35,000 Groups and Pages on Facebook to support refugees.
  • As of February 2016, 100 million hours of video are watched daily on Facebook.
  • More than 500 million people use events each month and more than a 123 million events were created on Facebook in 2015.
  • More than 80 million people now use Facebook Lite as of December.
  • There are 2.5 million active Advertisers.
  • More than 50 million small businesses now use Pages on Facebook and people post more than 2.5 billion comments on these Pages each month.
  • In September 2015, Instagram announced a new milestone of 400 million monthly actives.
  • WhatsApp ended the year 2015 with nearly 1 billion monthly actives.

Jack Dorsey's Five Priorities in 2016 for Twitter



"Twitter has always been considered a second screen for what’s happening in the world. And we believe we can become the first screen for everything that’s happening right now."
 - Jack Dorsey 


 Five priorities in 2016 to serve this focus are as follows:
  • Refine core service and make everything more intuitive.
  • Invest in being a leader in live streaming video, filming off their lead with Periscope.
  • Give creators and influencers, the best tools to build and connect with audiences.
  • Invest in making Twitter safer, so everyone can feel more empowered to speak freely.
  • Support developers to build and grow their businesses with Twitter. Each is critical to strengthening the platform and audience around Live.