[floathub]

Look at facebook. 1.23 billion active daily users? Really? And this is published in financial and technical press with precious little skepticism. FB must be happily counting every single incidental embedded bit of javascript that phones home from a facebook logo on an otherwise unrelated site count as an active user. And then some. One in 6 people on the _planet_. Every day. Think about the boldness of saying that with a straight face. But the hype machine is happy to keep echoing that claim.

[LordHumungous]

Well the stakes are a lot lower when it's social media or something. Theranos' problem was that it tried to take the Silicon Valley mentality to medicine, and as we've seen there's a little agency called the FDA that doesn't give a damn how hot or well funded you are. They will crush you into dust if you try to play games.

[cmurf]

Are "active daily users" humans checking a Facebook app? Or the app checking in with Facebook?

[maverick_iceman]

That's not true. I'm pretty sure they only include people who has some interaction with the app, in phone the app needs to be in foreground.