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Thank you for this link.

It also reports 13 million users log in once per day. That, in the context of Facebook, is what I'd call an "active user". These, overwhelmingly, are the people who are taking this poll. 700,000 therefore represents about 5% of the core userbase.


> 700,000 therefore represents about 5% of the core userbase.

Your math here is really flawed. Facebook's daily uniques are a magnitude smaller than their weekly and monthly uniques. Since this survey has been up since the redesign, you would have to compare 700k to the number of uniques over that period of time. I can assure you that number is much greater than 13M.


What? Your logic is as if all users knew about this poll, when I guess that the number of people checking for new apps is extremely tiny compared to the entire user base. I don’t even knew about this app, and it's more likely that 700k is very close to how many actually look for new apps on facebook during this period.


I'd bet you a dollar that at least 3/4 of the poll-takers are dailies. These are the users who really are taking this personally.


The whole point of this argument has been over statistical invalidity. Your guesses are pointless without data.




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