: The key metric of monthly active users rose to 1.65 billion, up 15 percent from a year ago, according to Nine News Australia. Facebook has 60 million more monthly users than it did in December 31, 2015, when the figure was 1.59 billion. Revenue jumped to $5.4 billion from $3.5 billion in the same period a year earlier, the company also reported on Wednesday."We had a great start to the year," co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said. The number of daily Facebook users rose 16 percent to 1.09 billion in the past year, with strong gains in mobile traffic. Facebook also announced that its board of directors had approved a plan to create a non-voting class of stock, intended to raise capital while leaving Mr Zuckerberg in control of the company vision and direction. Revenue that the California-based social network took in from advertising alone soared 57 percent in the quarter.
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