Despite scandals and breakthroughs, Facebook continues to grow slowly but surely

Over the past two years, Facebook has faced many difficulties. It is barely coming out of a problem until it falls into another. The most difficult was the Cambridge Analytics scandal. The latest breakthrough revealed the data for 29 million users. While we will not see the impact of this breakthrough on the company until the next quarter, Facebook continued despite everything to make money and gain more users even if its growth slowed slightly.

The Q3 2018 report showed that the number of active Facebook users per month reached 2.27 billion, an increase of 10% year-on-year, supplemented by revenues of $ 13.78 billion.

More importantly, it may be the company's announcement that more than 2.6 billion people are currently using Facebook, Wattab, Entangram and Messinger applications, which represent the "family" of their applications, clearly showing the strength of Facebook as a whole.

The number of active users per day on Facebook's main application jumped to 1.49 billion in the fourth quarter, up 9% over the same period in 2017.

The user growth figures for the company were one of the most prominent concerns during the second quarter of 2018, which seemed to be slowing down, but it is different from if the company is going downhill.

In the first quarter of 2018 - for example - the company recorded 2.2 billion active users per month, and this number now reached 2.27 billion as of 30 September 2018, or 70 million active monthly users in less than a year.

"Our community and businesses continue to grow rapidly, and now more than 2 billion people use our services every day," said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, in a press release.

"Facebook may be close to saturation" in the United States and Europe (where growth has been relatively stable for most of 2018), Zuckerberg said in a teleconference on Tuesday. "There is still room for rapid expansion in developing countries.

One of the points of interest revealed by Zuckerberg during the teleconference along with Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Sandberg is that the company sees private messages and stories in the future for its business, and said that users send 100 billion messages a day via the Facebook application group, including Messenger and Wassab, Daily share a billion stories on services such as Instagram.