Almost 5 Percent Of Facebook Accounts Are Duplicates

Making apps for Facebook? Better downgrade your list of potential customers by 83 million people. This week Facebook filed a 10-Q filing with the SEC, in which the company revealed details about duplicate and undesirable accounts.

Mashable did the math and figured out that 8.7 percent of Facebook’s accounts, or 83 million accounts, are fake. Check it out: “Of that 8.7%, 4.8% are duplicate accounts, 2.4% are user-misclassified accounts and 1.5% are ‘undesirable’ accounts, a.k.a. spam. The figure is a bit higher than the company’s previous estimates.

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