Facebook: About 10% of accounts are fake

Last week , during the publication of financial revenues last quarter , Facebook revealed that it had 23.1 billion active users, 757 million active users daily , 945 active mobile users and 556 daily active mobile users . In official documents filed over the weekend , the company estimates that about 5.5 - 11.2 % of Facebook accounts are fake .

In figures , this percentage translates into 67.65 million accounts which are used during the last month . The number can reach up to 137.76 million , if we refer to the maximum limit of evaluation .

Here's how Facebook explains the range 5.5 - 11.2 % :

- 4.3 % - 7.9 % of accounts were duplications ( which means that a person has created more than one account for an individual ) , or in concrete figures : 52.89 - 97.17 million .

- 0.8 % - 2.1 % are classified incorrectly ( which means that someone has created an account for something and not for someone ) , or in concrete figures 9.84 - 25.83 million .

- 0.4 % - 1.2 % are undesirable account ( which means that violate Facebook rules ) , or in concrete figures 4.92 - 14.76 million .