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“Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone.”

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– Mark Zuckerberg

That’s the thing about Facebook. It came with a buzzing idea of connecting people all around the world with just one click. And in no time, it took the social media world by storm. From millennials to baby boomers, everyone showered intense interest making this social media platform a huge hit.

Gradually, the social media market grew unexpectedly welcoming a complete realm of other social media platforms including – Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, and many more. Now when social media has become a massive source of income for millions out there, it’s common for an enthusiastic entrepreneur like you to think of developing and launching yet another social media app in the marketplace. And why not think about developing a Facebook clone app?

Since Facebook was what encouraged other social media platforms, we will explore its success rate, statistics, revenue, and business model today.

Not in the mood to read the entire post? Let’s keep it quick for you! Here’s a quick social media app development explainer video awaiting you!

Now let’s begin by exploring the success stats of Facebook.

Facebook is one of the most giant social media platforms exceeding the number of 2.93 billion monthly active users currently (2022). In fact, people from the United States spent the maximum time of the day on Facebook in January 2021. Generally, the average time spent on Facebook lasts for 33 minutes or so. And the most apparent reason is, that Facebook has a series of features catering to users’ interests.

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Insights To Facebook User Penetration –

2.33 billion Facebook users use it via mobile devices
476 million users access it through computers
2.8 billion users access it through tablets
43 million people use Facebook via laptops

Facebook Users By Country –

As per the latest data researched, India leads with 340 million active users of Facebook, followed by the United States with up to 200 million users. Here’s a stat for better understanding.

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The most apparent reason behind the increasing demand for social media apps like Facebook is its advanced features. Whether it’s aligning your business operational efficiency or improving the overall user experience, social media apps like Facebook work on almost every aspect.

Let’s take you through some appealing features of a social media app like Facebook.

Highly Advanced Features Of 100% Customizable Social Media Apps

Multiple-Marketplaces –

You as an entrepreneur hold complete control over adding lucrative marketplaces on a social media app like Facebook to better market, sell & earn on the same platform. In layman’s language, a social media app developed on your terms can be your next business operation management platform.

Blockchain Integration –

Getting blockchain integration is a must for those entrepreneurs who wish to run a business on or via social media apps. It strengthens the transactional flow with blockchain technology making it easier and hassle-free for your business customers to initiate a transaction on a social media app. This somewhat helps to strengthen the complete mobile app development process from scratch.

Chatbots –

Now entertain your random page viewers or online customers via the chatbot integration feature enabling a faster, quicker, and improved customer handling process. The social media app can be integrated with multiple chatbot questionnaires and answers to automate conversation.

AR Integration –

Accelerate the user activity and overall engagement rate on a social media app using a tinge of augmented reality features facilitating engaging camera effects, and much more.

Image or Video Editing –

Improve customer engagement experience on the customizable social media app with interactive image and video editing features. Let your target audience create engaging digital content using different filters, emoticons, location features, background images, and much more.

AI Integration –

AI third-party integration feature improves the user retention rate by making the app more interactive and collaborative for the end users. The most common examples of an AI integration feature include fingerprint login, text recognition, natural language technology use, and much more.

What about the standard ones? Well, if you are also wondering about all the standard features you get in a social media app, here’s your answer.

Standard Features Of A Social Media App –

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Now let’s move to the most important question, ‘How Does Facebook Make Money?’

Revenue Model & Streams Of Facebook –

A platform like Facebook has multiple mediums to make a handsome profit. And why not when there are billions of people sticking to this platform on daily basis? Its excessive usage is resulting in marketers seeing such social media platforms as a great source of customer retention and retail.

Wondering what is the biggest source of income for a platform like Facebook?

Well, it’s the paid ad advertisements ran within social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram the most. It may interest you to know that Facebook paid advertisements to represent up to 98% of Facebook’s revenue generation. In 2020, Facebook made up to $86 billion through paid advertising.

The remaining 2% of profit generation is majorly through selling or advertising portal devices, real estate properties, and closing deals on Oculus.

Don’t believe our words? Well, you can see Mark Zuckerberg himself explaining Facebook’s revenue and business model quickly.

The Business Model Of Facebook –

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There’s A Social Media App For Multiple Platforms

The best part is you as an entrepreneur can build, launch and own a social media app for multiple business models. Wondering what are they? Well, here’s a sneak peek at it.