Facebook accounts for 1 in 5 minutes on mobiles

One in every five minutes on a mobile phone is spent on Facebook.

Users spend an average of 46 minutes a day on Facebook’s apps, excluding the massively popular messaging service WhatsApp which the company also owns, with people making 1.5bn searches a day on the social media network.

Facebook has 1.49bn monthly active users as of June 30, up 13% from a year earlier, which has pushed revenue to over $4bn in the last quarter.

40m small and medium-sized businesses are now on Facebook, with 2m advertising on the site. To get your business on Facebook, or other social networks, please get in touch with Ewen Angus at ewen@trinityheriot.co.uk about our social media marketing services.

Read more about Facebook’s figures here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/11772072/One-in-every-five-minutes-on-a-mobile-phone-is-spent-on-Facebook.html