Although Facebook is allegedly experiencing a decline in the U.S., the service reportedly now has 750 million monthly active users.
The stat was first reported by TechCrunch, which cited a source close to Facebook. This comes nearly a year after the company announced it had reached 500 million users, which was double its 250 million user count from the prior year.
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Officially, Facebook has not updated its current number of users since it reached 500 million and still lists that amount on its statistics page. Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
If the assertion that Facebook has hit 750 million is correct, Facebook will most likely not double its number of users in a year’s time, as it did last year. At the end of May, Facebook statistics blog Socialbakers reported Facebook had nearly scored 700 million users. If Socialbakers and TechCrunch are both correct, that means Facebook gained 50 million users in less than a month.
Over the past few weeks, however, many industry analysts have been discussing Facebook’s possible decline in the U.S., following a report by Inside Facebook that said the service lost around 6 million users in the U.S during May. According to the blog, Facebook’s U.S. users dropped from 155.2 million at the start of May to 149.4 million by the end of the month. Data from comScore, however, says that total unique visitors to Facebook grew from about 154 million at the end of April to 157 million at the end of May.
When asked about the report earlier this month, a Facebook spokesman told PCMag that, “From time to time, we see stories about Facebook losing users in some regions. Some of these reports use data extracted from our advertising tool, which provides broad estimates on the reach of Facebook ads and isn’t designed to be a source for tracking the overall growth of Facebook. We are very pleased with our growth.”
Recently, data was published suggesting that Facebook is gaining ground in developing regions and countries late in adopting the California-bases service, including Mexico, India, Brazil, and Egypt, and reportedly is now the most popular social network in 119 out of 134 countries. So even if the number of users has dropped in the U.S., the adoption rate of other countries could be picking up the slack and increasing its total number of users.
