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I've commented before on the false number of developers that Facebook recites: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=687796

Considering he's using their numbers for his calculations, the entire premise might fall apart.

"Another intellectually dishonest number I hear Facebook recite is the number of developers. They get this number from the number of people who have installed the developer application. In the first year of the platform, that was 400,000. I know numerous friends who know nothing about programming that installed the developer application in that first week because they didn't know what they were doing. They recite this figure as if hundreds of thousands of people have devoted their lives to making Facebook applications. Sorry to burst someone's bubble, but it just ain't so."



Yeah. 900,000 developers isn't even remotely credible.




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