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Shares of Facebook parent Meta platforms rose 13% on Wednesday as the company reported quarterly daily active users above Wall Street estimates, even as it recorded its slowest revenue growth in a decade, Reuters reports.

Daily active users, a key metric for advertisers that indicates activity on Facebook, were 1.96 billion, slightly higher that the estimate of 1.95 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

Meta has lost about half of its value since the start of the year, after a dismal February earnings when it reported a decline in Facebook’s daily active users for the first time and forecast a gloomy quarter.

The company has blamed factors including Apple’s privacy changes and increased competition from platforms like TikTok. In these latest results, Meta forecast second-quarter revenue between $28 billion and $30 billion. Analysts on average were expecting current-quarter revenue of $30.63 billion.