India Leads In fake, Duplicate Facebook Accounts


Duplicate account is the one, which a user maintains in addition to his or her principal account, it added.

"We also seek to identify false accounts, which we divide into two categories - user-misclassified accounts and undesirable accounts.

"During the nine months ended September 30, 2013, for example, we estimate user-misclassified accounts may have represented between approximately 0.8-2.1 percent of our worldwide MAUs and undesirable accounts may have represented between approximately 0.4-1.2 percent of our worldwide MAUs," the filing said.

User-misclassified accounts is where users create personal profiles for a business, organization or non-human entity such as a pet (such entities are permitted on Facebook using a Page rather than a personal profile under its terms of service, it added.)

Undesirable accounts, which represent user profiles that Facebook determines are intended to be used for purposes that violate its terms of service like spamming, the filing added.

However, the social networking major's user base swelled by 18 per cent to 1.19 billion for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013 aided by growth in emerging markets like India and Brazil.

Facebook reported a 60 per cent rise in its consolidated revenues at $2.02 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2013 from $1.26 billion in the year-ago period helped by increasing mobile advertising revenue.

The California-headquartered firm posted a consolidated net income of $425 million against a net loss of $59 million during the reviewed quarter.

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Source: PTI