30-JUL-14
"OK, that is all nice, how does the company make money? Advertising on your timeline, I am sure as a user you have seen them. Promoted adverts. International revenue was 33 percent of total revenue in the last quarter, mobile advertising revenue was 81 percent of total revenue, 211 million of the 271 million monthly active users are mobile users. Average revenue per 1000 timeline views is a mere 1.60 Dollars."
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