[citation][nom]nuclearshadow[/nom]If the given Facebook number is unique visitors in that month then the claim of "Google Only Site to Surpass 100 Million " would be incorrect. 179,411,000 is over 179 million after all.
Also the article does not state that the Facebook number is unique visitors. But even if you are correct then the research is still flawed as it claims no site passed 100 million other than Google right after the 179 million claim. Your take is much less likely to be correct as that error just would have been way too obvious and no where does it state the Facebook # is unique visits just the third most visited overall.So now that your claim can be easily passed aside as incorrect lets examine further numbers. 51% of Americans have Facebook.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382638,00.asp America's population is 311 million. This would average 158,610,000 (note this a number below your possible unique visit claim as well further proving you wrong) people with a Facebook account. Given the time period of a entire month even if only half of those people still used Facebook. But at-least signed in a mere 3 times a month it would be 237,915,000 visits. Of course we all know that half of Facebook's population did not leave and people averagely check it more than 3 times a month. The real number of visits should be in the billions. But it goes to show even under severe hypothetical handicaps Facebook still exceeds their extraordinary flawed number.[/citation]
The article doesn't have to repeat the fact that the table from comscore clearly says "Unique visitors". You just have to take a look at that one.
As for the 100 million, the article says "It was the only site to surpass 100 million unique visitors on both desktop and mobile."
By the way, if you add up the mobile and desktop for a specific website, you will get a number that is higher than what comscore says. Google for example have 220 och 127 million users for desktop and mobile, but total is just 235 millions
That means that the users of the same account using different devices will count as 1 unique visitor, not as 2 different.
As said, you can have as many facebook accounts as you want.
I have 4, but haven't used facebook for a month or so. Used it mainly as a chat/infoboard during big sports events like the olympics, soccer world cup and the likes and have to use multiple accounts due to the amount of posts i make locks me out from the account for a day (Fb thinks it is spamming). A lot of users do that.
And there are several othe reasons for it too.
The 1 billion Facebook users is nowhere near the truth of 1 billion unique users every month. Probably a couple of hundred million users for the whole world (which isn't bad anyway).