Regardless of that, earnings, accumulated or otherwise, do not perfectly correlate with cash flow so it strikes me that the comment is mixing oranges and apple sauce.

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Facebook, as usual, declines to comment on any of these numbers, but we know that it became cash-flow positive in 2009.

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