It's worth noting that the global numbers suggest strong growth in messenger apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger too, but these platforms don't currently publish
user numbers for individual markets on a consistent basis, so it's tricky to map country - by - country performance and growth.
Valve is currently holding its first ever Steam Dev Days conference in Seattle and while the event is not open to the public or the press, the company used the occasion to reveal some updated
user numbers for its Steam game download service.
World of Warcraft and Hearthstone, meanwhile, saw their monthly active
user numbers for 2016 grow by 10 percent and 20 percent, respectively, compared to the previous year.
The user numbers for this quarter, at last, were encouraging.
Microsoft says it's been «blown away» by the interest in Game Pass, but Xbox head Phil Spencer declined to share
users numbers for the service in an interview ahead of Tuesday's announcement.
Not exact matches
For example,
users will be able to filter out tweets from accounts that have no profile picture, and those that have unverified email addresses or phone
numbers.
A
number of the
users whose accounts were limited after this feature was being tested complained that their free - speech rights were being restricted
for no reason, just because they used a specific word.
The on - demand economy is also projected to show significant growth, though the general trend of expansion in the
number of
users of 1099 forms (tax forms
for independent contractors) started long before the recent tech boom.
The Google Doodle depicting the actress is available Sunday
for users in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and a
number of other countries.
The cellular connection can also be used
for placing and receiving calls and will work with the same phone
number users have on their iPhones.
Face it: none of these
numbers are reassuring to cable companies that are seeing
users desert them in droves
for less costly and more flexible options like Netflix (NFLX), Hulu and Apple (AAPL) TV.
«We had been offering our Depression Care service
for a
number of years, and we wanted to dig into our data and measure our impact... look and see who our end
users were,» says Barb Vader, Vice President, Clinical Services at Morneau Shepell, and the study's research lead.
In addition to providing tools that allow
users to communicate with counterparties, TradeBlock also provides a US dollar denominated reference rate
for digital currencies, which is used by a
number of investment trusts and funds.
An increasing
number of Twitter
users are tweeting their support
for the boycott, which will start on March 1 and last all day.
Google is aware that slow sites make
for a poor
user experience, and because they can measure site speed with their crawls and poor
user experience by the
number of people that immediately return to their results pages after clicking on a link, site speed is an important ranking factor.
Speakeasy, another option, provides PIN-less call in
numbers for prices ranging from $ 10 to $ 30 per
user per month.
Users» birth dates, Social Security
numbers and more were low - hanging fruit
for identity thieves.
If this data is any indication, an increasing
number of
users will look
for simple, niche applications that will allow them to snap and share photos on the go.
It expects total monthly active
users in March to
number 168 - 171 million, including those who use the service
for free in return
for watching advertisements, up from 157 million at the end of last year.
Some say it would be a huge mistake
for Apple (AAPL), in part because Tidal hasn't proven to be successful in either adding
users or growing its business — although it has a
number of popular features, including its access to artist exclusives.
Twitter reports the
number of monthly active
users, which stood at 328 million
for two quarters.
The company, based in Des Moines, has a fairly simple proposition:
Users sign up
for a Dwolla account by entering their social security
number and bank routing
number.
It put out a clarification statement after the report, giving two clues about the
number: that daily
users make up less than 50 percent of monthly
users, and that there's a lot of room
for growth.
... This means that there are multiple «active» token
numbers for each customer at any given time,» Hursti said, adding that he recalls a tokenization trial
for «black cards»
for high net worth cardholders that resulted in each
user having «thousands of active
numbers issued to them at any given time.»
Twitter doesn't want it to be easy
for investors to calculate its daily
user number.
In the same way old - school Netflix
users could order DVDs in the mail, Rent the Runway Unlimited customers get an unlimited
number of dresses and accessories
for $ 99 a month.
Google is one of the biggest, most widely - used search platforms on the Internet, and they provide a
number of free, simple features you can use to promote your business directly to search engine
users that are actively looking
for your products and services.
Contests are good
for adding email addresses to your
user base, but it is often far better to have a smaller, avid fan base than a larger
number of people with no enthusiasm
for your brand.
ModPOS includes modules
for «scraping» payment - card
numbers from the memory of point - of - sale systems, logging keystrokes of computer
users and transmitting stolen data, according to iSight.
Registered
users can use the same identifying
number for multiple aircraft, making this more of an operator registry than a drone registry.
The issue with Facebook's privacy policies is that the
user information they collect is buried and scattered across a
number of pages, which is not ideal
for most
users.
The system will then generate a Certificate of Aircraft Registration / Proof of Ownership
for each
user, as well as a unique identification
number that must be displayed on all drones.
That's nearly twice as many as six months ago, though Facebook did not disclose how many of them pay
for the service or the
number of individual
users.
For RVAwonk's tweet, outside of her own audience, traffic and retweets hitting five times her account average can be attributed to a
number of
users, with Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta), a verified senior correspondent at Business Insider, being the first large account to share her message.
«The
number one attack vector is email, so all
users need to be trained to not click on links in emails, and never open an attachment they did not ask
for or did not expect without verification,» he said.
The beauty of marketing on Facebook is their enormous
number of
users and the powerful tools available
for carving out your ideal market.
If an overwhelming
number of websites and
users redefine search terms like «ISIS recruiting» (
for example), that could seriously impact the group's ability to easily recruit new members.
Social analytics firm SocialFlow said recently that the «reach» of a particular post on Facebook — meaning the total
number of
users who see it — has fallen
for some publishers by as much as 52 % from January through July.
For instance, if the distribution of your product is confined to a specific geographic area, then you want to further define the target market to reflect the
number of
users or sales of that product within that geographic segment.
While Gartner doesn't include sales of Apple iPads or Google's low - cost Chromebook laptops in its PC shipment
numbers — reasoning that they don't generally compete
for the same
users as the mainstream PC — the firm does say that Chromebooks are growing like crazy.
If your goal is to get email addresses, then don't ask
for the
user's first name, last name, phone
number, and size of company.
Ahmed believes that, like WhatsApp (which had just 55 employees but sold to Facebook in February
for $ 19 billion), Talkray could scale to more than 100 million
users with a «low double - digit»
number of employees.
(At this point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority of those who took up the offer were existing Internet
users who wanted some free data, and it seems a very small
number of genuinely new
users actually graduated to the world of paid -
for Internet access.
There were signs that Yelp
users were using and depending on the site more than they had in the past: Yelp
users wrote 31 % more reviews than they did during the same period in 2015, pushing the total
number of Yelp reviews above 100 million
for the first time, the company said.
Still, Google wins high marks even among AWS and Azure fans
for its artificial intelligence capabilities and data analytics products, like BigQuery, which let
users crunch
numbers.
Hamon's standard telecom system required expensive new hardware
for each expansion but accommodated only a limited
number of new
users.
A small
number of large video companies such as Netflix, Hulu and YouTube have the massive reach and capital to pay additional fees
for preferential treatment to speed video content delivery to end -
users.
Heroin use in the US has increased
for men and women of all age groups and all income levels, with the
number of
users nearly doubling between 2007 and 2013.
Buffer
for Business provides an export of this data that includes the specific
number of potential
users who saw the tweet (e.g., 104,383 as opposed to 104k).
For example, a stock photographer can point to the
number of downloads of his material and the ratings
users have given him as a measure of his aptitude behind the lens.