Ten years on, Facebook’s second quarter earnings show users are more engaged than ever

Gigaom

Facebook’s (s FB) 2014 second quarter earnings show a healthy company continuing to grow at a surprisingly rapid rate for its size.

The company beat analyst expectations for earnings per share by a landslide — $0.42 compared to the expected $0.32. But perhaps the most significant numbers are Facebook’s user engagement stats. The company’s daily active users averaged 829 million for the second quarter. That’s almost 20 percent higher than the same period last year.

It shows that Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm shift is working to its advantage. Although Facebook’s earliest adopters — like me — may be frustrated with the fact that more articles appear in the newsfeed then updates from friends, it seems like the bulk of Facebook users don’t mind the change; They’re visiting the site more frequently than ever.

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It’s also worth noting that the ten-year-old site’s monthly active users are 1.32 billion. With…

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