Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg disclosed the number to his followers in a Facebook post. Facebook defines a monthly active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through its website or a mobile device, or used its Messenger app, in the past 30 days. Twitter Inc reported in April monthly active users of 328 million, while Snap Inc.'s Snapchat had 166 million daily users at the end of the first quarter. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the company 2004 in his college dorm room. Facebook had 1.94 billion people using its service monthly as of March 31, an increase of 17 percent from a year earlier.

Source: CBC News June 27, 2017 20:15 UTC