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Facebook getting more primetime viewers than any major TV network

The social network is getting half of television viewers between 18 and 24 years old during the primetime hours.

This final note today, in which Facebook goes toe-to-toe with television — and wins, it looks like.

The social networking company commissioned the good people at Nielsen to do a survey: How many people between the ages of 18 and 24 are using Facebook during television primetime?

You know where this is going, right? Facebook gets a full 50 percent of those eyeballs, half of television viewers between 18 and 24 — more than any one of the four broadcast networks.

That perhaps explains this item we saw on Bloomberg today. That Facebook is considering selling television-style ads on its site for $2.5 million a day.

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