{"id":14881,"date":"2019-04-25T00:32:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/you-might-hate-it-but-facebook-stories-now-has-500m-users.html"},"modified":"2019-04-25T00:32:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:32:06","slug":"you-might-hate-it-but-facebook-stories-now-has-500m-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/you-might-hate-it-but-facebook-stories-now-has-500m-users.html","title":{"rendered":"You might hate it, but Facebook Stories now has 500M users"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might think it\u2019s redundant with Instagram <\/a> Stories, or just don\u2019t want to see high school friends\u2019 boring lives, but ephemeral Snapchat-style Stories now have 500 million daily users across Facebook <\/a> and Messenger. WhatsApp\u2019s Stories feature Status has 500 million dailies too, and Instagram hit that milestone three months ago. That\u2019s impressive, because it means one-third of Facebook\u2019s 1.56 billion daily users are posting or watching Stories each day, up from zero when Facebook launched the feature two years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For reference, Stories inventor Snapchat has just 190 million total daily users.<\/p>\n

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Facebook Stories<\/p>\n

CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new stats on today\u2019s Facebook Q1 2019 earnings call, which showed it\u2019s user growth rate had increased but it had to save $3 billion for a potential FTC fine over privacy practices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Facebook isn\u2019t just using Stories to keep people engaged, but to squeeze more cash out of them. Today COO Sheryl Sandberg announced that 3 million advertisers have now bought Stories ads across Facebook\u2019s family of apps. I\u2019d expect Facebook to launch a Stories Ad Network soon so other apps can show Facebook\u2019s vertical video ads and get a cut of the revenue.<\/p>\n

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Facebook\u2019s aggressive move to clone Snapchat Stories not just in Instagram but everywhere might have pissed users off at first, but many of them have come around. If you give people a place to put their face at the top of their friends\u2019 phones, they\u2019ll fill it. And if someone dangles a window into the lives of people you know and people you wish you did, you\u2019ll open that window regularly.<\/p>\n

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Facebook reserves $3B for FTC fine, but keeps growing with 2.38B users in Q1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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