Facebook now has 351 million active users in Asia

Facebook’s (FB) newest figures for Q3 2013 are out, showing strong numbers that beat expectations with $2.02 billion in total revenue.

The revenue figure for Asia rose to $278 million in Q3, up from $154 million at the same point last year.
Facebook’s monthly active users in Asia are also up, now standing at 351 million. That’s up from 277 million a year ago. Facebook Q3 figures for Asia, 01

While Facebook’s average revenue per active user in Asia is up, it’s still dwarfed by the whopping $962 million that Facebook makes from just the 199 million active users in the US and Canada.

The NextBigWhat blog crew notes that Facebook’s earnings teleconference mentioned that developing markets like India and Turkey likely have more spam/fake or duplicate accounts than the global average. Duplicate accounts maybe constitute between 0.8 and 2.1 percent of the active users on Facebook, while spammers might make up between 0.4 and 1.2 percent of its worldwide active user-base.

Source: yahoo.com

Most-liked Facebook photo of all time

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It was a moving photo like countless others on Facebook, but the caption "four more years" said it all -- US President Barack Obama had won re-election, and was about to make social media history. 

After a months-long, gruelling presidential campaign fought both off- and online, Obama sealed his tech-savvy reputation late Tuesday by announcing his victory over Republican foe Mitt Romney on Twitter and Facebook with the photo. 

Screenshot of Barack Obama fanpage's photo. It has over 3 million likes as of November 8.

By early Wednesday, the shot of a smiling Obama holding his wife Michelle in a loving embrace had already broken records on both social networks -- bringing to a climax a hard-fought online campaign for supporters and votes. 

"This Barack Obama photo is the most-liked Facebook photo of all time," the social network announced Wednesday, as it clocked up more than 3.5 million "likes". 

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