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Facebook’s India user base now at 125 million; mobile users steady at 89%

Social networking website Facebook’s Indian user base has grown by 5.6% from 118 million monthly active users (MAUs) in Q4 2014 (December 2014) to 125 million MAUs in Q1 2015 (March 2015), out of which 114 million were mobile MAUs. Facebook India’s daily active users (DAUs) are at 59 million in Q1, up from 55 million in Q4, out of which 53 million DAUs come through mobile (as opposed to 49 million DAUs in Q4), accounting for over 89.8% of Facebook’s daily traffic as of March 2015, the company informed Medianama. The US continues to be Facebook’s largest market, followed by India. Global monthly and daily traffic: Globally, Facebook has 1.44 billion MAUs as of March 2015, up from 1.39 billion MAUs in December 2014, out of which 1.25 billion are mobile MAUs which, themselves, are up from 1.19 billion mobile MAUs in December 2014. Facebook adds that it has 936 million daily active users globally, up from 890 million in December last year. It also sees 798 million mobile DAUs, as compared to 745 million MAUs logged in Q4 2014. Figures from last year: As of September 2014, Facebook had reported an increase of 12% (across desktop and mobile devices) in 6 months in its India user base from 100 million MAUs in April 2014 to 112 million MAUs in September 2014. Of this, about 90% of the users (about 99 million) used mobile devices to access the social networking site. Overall, Facebook saw 52 million users from the…

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