{"id":9304,"date":"2018-10-31T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/facebook-daily-visits-growth-slows-as-sales-miss-forecasts\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:33:30","slug":"facebook-daily-visitor-numbers-begins-to-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/facebook-daily-visitor-numbers-begins-to-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Daily Visitor Numbers Begins To Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook which is by far the biggest social network platform has chosen Halloween to\u00a0announce its\u00a0average September visitor figures &#8211; 1.49 Billion people a day on its main platform and around 2bn overall. This is up 9% on last year but below expectations, hence the wailing and gnashing of teeth from shareholders, which at one point wiped 20% off the companies value.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations were for 1.51 Bn per day and pundits cite the rise in costs &amp;\u00a0flat growth in Europe the US &amp;\u00a0Canada as a concern. However sales rose by $3bn (33%\u00a0meaning the business is increasing revenue per visitor) and given 80% plus of US citizens are already members FB cant realistically expect to grow user numbers at the same break neck speed.<\/p>\n<p>What is possibly of a concern is\u00a0the number of\u00a0data breaches and\u00a0the continued proliferation of\u00a0&#8220;fake news&#8221; which is possibly turning people away from it as their daily time filler. Only time will tell if this announcement ends up being a Trick or a Treat Good news for YouTube?<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46038496\" rel=\"nofollow\">BBC News &#8211; Business<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/oct\/30\/facebook-quarterly-report-revenue-growth\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>header PK studio\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook which is by far the biggest social network platform has chosen Halloween to\u00a0announce its\u00a0average September visitor figures &#8211; 1.49 Billion people a day on its main platform and around 2bn overall. This is up 9% on last year but below expectations, hence the wailing and gnashing of teeth from shareholders, which at one point&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-us-canada-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9309,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions\/9309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}