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Facebook’s User Roster Teeming With Flotsam and Jetsam

August 6, 2012 No Comments

SOURCE: TechNewsWorld

Misclassified pages for pets. Spam bots. Unauthorized alias accounts. All told, Facebook has 83 million illegitimate accounts floating around among its user base of nearly 1 billion. “I am a bit shocked as to how high the percentage is compared to what it was,” said Simon Khalaf, CEO of Flurry Analytics. “What happened? Why this sudden rise?”