The world's largest social network is now even larger: Facebook reported 2.4 billion monthly active users in Q1:
Overall, Facebook now boasts 2.7 billion monthly users across its family of apps. That includes Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, and core Facebook, with 2.1 billion of those people accessing one of the apps every day.Facebook added 1 million MAU in the quarter, totaling 243 million in the region. DAU were flat with Q4 2018 at 186 million.Facebook added 34 million MAU and 33 million DAU .
Pew. But despite the declining use among US teens, core Facebook continues to add users worldwide — particularly in non-Western regions. In Q1, the vast majority of Facebook's new users came from APAC and ROW regions, for instance.
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