"If we can get a small percentage of users to pay we start to make money".
"It is being tested among a very small percentage of users," said a spokeswoman.
Hours after the introduction, the company indicated that the problems were affecting "a small percentage of users".
And although there are no reliable overall figures, people in the industry say that only a small percentage of users with Web-ready devices actually exploit that feature.
Something startling happened when the design was rolled out to a small percentage of users, though, as the blogger Mike Isaac recently reported: they started using Facebook less.
The Translate team began to conduct latency experiments on a small percentage of users, in the form of faked delays, to identify tolerance.
In that way, Facebook contends that if even a small percentage of users create groups, most people on Facebook will end up in several groups.
The inclusion of Wikipedia articles among the thousands of publications used by Google News began as an experiment that was seen by a small percentage of users, said a company spokesman, Gabriel Stricker.
In Twitter's case, site visitors reflect only a small percentage of users; many Twitter regulars opt to access the service exclusively from their mobile devices after an initial visit to Twitter.com.
Facebook says a small percentage of users were affected.
The feature is rolling out to a small percentage of users today.
