A good three months ago Facebook was shaken by a data scandal and the company was on the scabbard. The share price crashed, the users were outraged, and some experts even called for the group's destruction. In the meantime, the excitement has subsided, the share price has recovered and the large user exodus has failed. On the contrary: Facebook's online empire continues to grow. This week, the Facebook subsidiary Instagram announced that he now have a billion active users. As the following graphic shows, Facebook's greatest competitors can only dream of reaching this milestone. Twitter, Snapchat and Pinterest each have well below 300 million active users – Facebook, on the other hand, has now broken the billion mark with four platforms.


