With 2 billion users and counting, Facebook’s profit and revenue soar

Facebook reported its second quarter earnings today, and the results were predictably positive. The social network passed 2 billion monthly users earlier this summer, with over 1.3 billion using its software every day. The company parlayed that audience into $9.3 billion in revenue and $3.89 billion in net income. That’s a 71 percent higher profit than it reported for this same period last year.
The one criticism you could make of Facebook’s results is that the rate of growth for bot