Facebook's profit goes up, and that's how much money it made in the last three months

Facebook reported on Wednesday an increase in its profits in the past quarter, thanks to advertising that increased to more than two billion users.

Net profit in the second quarter went to 71% year-on-year from $3.9 billion to $9.3 billion.

Within hours, Facebook shares increased from 2% to $166.83, the results from the social network, the newspaper Express broadcast.

“We had a good second quarter and a good one-half-year-on-year”, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said.

Our community is now two billion people and we are focusing on bringing the world even closer to”, he said.

The number of people using Facebook at least once a month turned out to be 2.01 billion at the end of June, an increase of 17% from last year.