Facebook reach widens in Asia-Pacific, user base rises to 1.94 bn in Q1

Asia-Pacific region added 43 million users

Social media-networking platform Facebook added a whopping 43 million monthly active users in the quarter ended 31 March, 2017. The Asia-Pacific region, with 43 million new users, became the biggest driver of Facebook’s 4.3 per cent worldwide growth, compared with 3.91 per cent in the previous quarter.

On 3 May, 2017, Facebook filed its first quarter results that revealed user base of the social media giant had grown to 1.94 billion worldwide and was set to hit 2 billion in the second quarter if the company continued to grow at the same pace.

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