Facebook LiveJournal in Russia ahead of the number of visitors

Facebook LiveJournal in Russia ahead of the number of visitorsFacebook operedel Livejournal
Facebook operedel Livejournal
At the end of last month, according to company TNS Facebook for the first time ahead of Russia's most popular blogging platform Livejournal. Facebook Audience in Russia in October amounted to more than 13.4 million users, while the audience Livejournal was only 13 million unique visitors. It should be clarified that in October an active social network audience was 4.868 million users, so that it can be assumed that the majority of TNS in the calculation is the transition of social plugins installed at many sites you'll ever need.Despite the fact that most visitors to Facebook in Russia are registered users, Facebook representative in Russia Ekaterina Skorobogatova reports that in a social network there are more pages to which access is open without registration.
Now LiveJournal due to problems with availability, and attacks on its servers, lost part of its ongoing audience, and returned to a performance in 2010, while Facebook is constantly gaining momentum. Head Livejournal Russia Ilya Dronov said that is not quite correct to compare Facebook and Livejournal, because they are completely different things: the social network blogohosting.
Just Learn new leadership promises to take measures that will regain the popularity of the service. So in the plans are going to completely remove the Livejournal ads allow users to place any advertising, and theirs with the most advertising pages disappear service. Such competition should go only to the benefit of users.

Advertise now and in the news Facebook

Advertise now and in the news Facebook
Advertising in the news announcement Facebook Advertising Facebook, which previously appeared in the right column («sponsores stories»), will now be displayed directly to users in the news. From now on a limited number of users of USA, UK, Avtsralii and New Zealand saw their news feeds with new social and promotional offers that show how their friends interact with different brands.
Otlyuchit display of such advertising is not available to users, but if desired it can be removed manually. A new form of advertising advertisements featured stories in the search giant announced late last year. The new species will be featured advertisements are now much more difficult to distinguish from the usual news, as they at first vzgyal no different from themselves the news. The only difference - Featured mark next to the date news.
Looks new ads in the film as follows:
Sponsored ads that appear on the right side of the user profile will continue to be marked as advertising. However, Facebook is considering changing their name in the future.

In Facebook verified profiles appear

In Facebook verified profiles appear
Social network Facebook has provided an opportunity famous celebrities, journalists, athletes, politicians and others who have a lot of readers in subscriptions, the opportunity to prove his identity. It is assumed that this will help avoid duplication of mass profiles znametityh people.
"The new technology allows people to verify their identity by presenting a copy of your ID card," - say representatives of Facebook.
After this test, they will also have the ability to display an alternate name (stage name, nickname, maiden name, author name, etc.) for its news feeds in addition to its present name. For example, users with many followers today receive messages on Facebook to confirm their identity.
The advantages of confirming the identity of celebrities have touted the site co-founder of social network Mark Zuckerberg Facebook at a conference for developers.
As Twitter has long been a reality check of public persons, as a way to build confidence in the veracity of "tweets."

Facebook launched Messenger for Windows

Facebook launched Messenger for Windows
This news may make people more dependent on social network Facebook. The world's largest social networking site has officially launched the Facebook Messenger for Windows. Facebook Messenger is a standalone application that allows you to communicate with friends on Facebook chat on Windows 7.

Messenger lets you send instant messages, receive notifications and read news feed. In other words, this application allows the use of Facebook, not on most social networking site.
It should be noted that the Facebook Messenger can significantly undermine the position of other chat clients. It should also increase the activity of users of social networks, make spending more time on Facebook and will provide transitions desktop software to the site through ticker messages and notifications.
Friends with whom the user communicates constantly, will appear at the top of the list, a separate unit. Group chat and video while in the application are not available. Privacy settings are taken from the settings of your profile. Download and install the Facebook Messenger, please visit http://www.facebook.com/about/messenger.

Russians won the competition for programmers to Facebook

Russians won the competition for programmers to Facebook
Russian programmers for the second year in a row receiving first place in the international competition programmer Facebook Hacker Cup, which organizes social network Facebook.
In total, Facebook Hacker Cup in January, attended by more than 6,000 applicants from around the world. After 4 rounds of correspondence are the best programmers were invited to the finals. 17 March 25 finalists took part in the decisive part of the competition in California in the new campus of Facebook. It is said that all travel expenses claimed social network Facebook.
After three hours of competition, Facebook announced the winners of 2012:
1st place: Roman Andreev of Russia, who completed the task in 1 hour 4 minutes for a minute faster than the representative of the United States.2nd place: Tomek Seagull from the USA (1 hour 5 minutes)3rd place: Tiancheng Loo of China (1 hour 44 minutes)
The winner got a prize of $ 5,000 for first place, but much more so that the novel Andreev named one of the best programmers in the world.Novel Andreev - the winner Facebook Hacker Cup 2012
Novel Andreev - Facebook Hacker Cup winner in 2012 (photo by press service of Facebook)
In the final competition included the following countries: Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and the USA.
In 2012, Facebook Hacker Cup was held for the second time. In the first contest, held in March 2011, defeated the Russians Mitrichev Peter, a graduate of mechanics and mathematics of Moscow State University.

Held IPO Facebook

In the evening took place on May 17th starting togrov shares and an IPO of social network Facebook. Total kompaniney produced more than 421 million shares. Initial public offering took place on the top of the price range: the value of one security was 38 U.S. dollars. According to the official release of the company's shares on the NASDAQ togruyutsya under the ticker FB.

So now we can say that the social network Facebook has managed to attract up to U.S. $ 16 billion and the value of the company according to this assessment amounted to more than 104 billion dollars. It should be noted that the scrip does not include the possible sale of 63 million additional shares in the 30-day option for the underwriters (63.18 million additional shares of Class A), attracted by the amount of money sredstvr can grow for another several billion dollars.

Such an IPO did Mark Zuckerberg the founder of the network (who recently turned 28 years old), the 29th richest person on the planet, and its state sechas estimated at $ 19.1 billion

Facebook has more than 80 million bots

Facebook has more than 80 million bots
Social network Facebook announced that 8.7% of active accounts (about 83 million accounts) have violated the rules for use of the network: it dubrirovannye accounts, accounts of organizations and spam-bots.
In its quarterly report updated the Facebook accounts of incorrect data on the number of which now boasts 83 million users already. The company estimates that 4.8 percent of the 955 million monthly active users - dubbed akkanty. For example, a user can use one account to communicate with friends at work, and the other used for family and close friends.
The same Facebook reports that 2.4 percent of accounts - accounts incorrectly categorized, for example creating a personal profile for the business, organization, or a pet. On Facebook, under the terms of the social network service, such accounts are to be pages.
Facebook also estimates that 1.5 percent of monthly active users - "junk accounts" that do not belong to real people and are designed for spam or other purposes that violate the rules of social networking.