Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by opportune 2644 days ago
Does pinterest count impressions from google images as active/distinct user? Wouldn't surprise me if they did that atrocious image search seo to juice up the MAU numbers. I probably live in a bubble but nobody I know uses pinterest.
3 comments

"We review the number of monthly active users (“MAUs”), which we define as a logged-in Pinterest user who visits our website or opens our mobile application at least once during the 30-day period ending on the date of measurement [...]"
hah, jynx
I read this as “hah, lynx” and was wondering why anyone would visit pinterest in a text-only browser.
Pinterest's primary demographic is women
> We define a monthly active user as a logged-in Pinterest user who visits our website or opens our mobile application at least once during the 30-day period ending on the date of measurement.