Facebook celebrates one billion users in single day
AFP – SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook
swanked of a new benchmark Thursday in its seemingly inexorable march to
Internet ubiquity: a billion persons used the social network in a single day.
“We just passed an important
milestone,” chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a post on his Facebook
page.
“On Monday, 1 in 7 people on
Earth used Facebook to link with their friends and family. “ “When we talk
about our financials, we use average numbers, but this is different,” Mark
Zucky added.
“This was the first time we
grasped this milestone, and it’s just the beginning of linking the entire
world. “Mark Zuckerberg also posted a video devoted to the achievement.
In its earnings update last
month, Facebook said monthly energetic users surged 13 per cent from a year ago
to 1.49 billion. The number of Mobiles lively users rose to 1.31 billion.
Facebook on Thursday also said
it is buildings new technology that video creators can use to protector in
contradiction of their works being copied at the social network deprived of
permission.
“This expertise is custom-made
to our stage and will allow these creators to classify matches of their videos
on Facebook crossways pages, profiles, groups, and geographies,” a blog column
said.
“Our identical tool will evaluate millions of video
uploads rapidly and truthfully, and when matches are surfaced, editors will be
able to report them to us for deletion. “Facebook strategic to soon initiate
testing the new matching equipment (Technology) with a select group of buddies,
including media companies.
The California-based social
network said that it has got expression from some producers that videos are
sometimes uploaded to Facebook without permission in a practice mentioned to as
“freebooting.“
Facebook is already using an
Audible Magic system that uses audio “fingerprinting” to recognize and block
copyrighted videos from making it onto the social network without suitable authorization.
“We want makers to get credit
for the videos that they own,” Facebook said.
“To report this, we have been
exploring ways to enhance our privileges management tools to better permit
creators to control how their videos are shared on Facebook. “
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