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The Wall Street Journal proper reports (no offense, AllThingsD) that Facebook probably makes most of its revenue from online advertising combined with cuts from game purchases. Before its public offering, Zynga reported $828.9 million in revenue through the third quarter. Facebook takes a 30% cut from games that live on its ecosystem. In this instance, Facebook collected about $350 million from Zynga. Facebook Credits are another revenue stream. Now there’s even a a user loyalty incentive component.

As Facebook moves forward with its IPO, many are wondering just how much it makes from ads. Boston-based Nanigans, a Facebook ads API developer, reports 1600% growth in Facebook ad spending over the past year. This refers to the ad spend managed by Nanigans’ software – not the entire Facebook ecosystem.

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You’ve heard it before: Marketers are trying to figure out how to best reach their target audience. Facebook ads are becoming more appealing, or at least that’s what Facebook’s advertising solutions want us to believe. “Marketers across the globe, and beyond early adopters, have embraced Facebook as a mainstream media platform,” says Nanigans CEO Ric Calvillo.

Facebook revealed more about its ad strategy at the end of last year, shortly before it rolled out Timeline to all users. Facebook tailors its ads to the user, delivering what it believes they want to see. Users also have the option of X-ing an ad if they do not want to see it.

Nanigans’ Ad Engine is focused on the more granular aspects of Facebook ads. It optimizes marketers’ Facebook ad spend to meet goals on Facebook, such as “Likes,” app installs, registration, in-app actions, viral referrals and purchases. In 2011, it served over 175 billion Facebook ad impressions.

Facebook is preparing to file a $5 billion IPO, but that number could end up being closer to $10 billion. As the New York Times reports, this entire offering is fueled by you, the user who continuously provides Facebook with the personal data it needs to serve targeted ads. Barrons reports that 90% of Facebook’s $3.8 billion revenue in 2011 came from ads.

Soon Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will thank you kindly, and Wall Street will officially place a value on your personal data. Will advertisers bite harder in 2012? And more importantly, will users provide the social network with even more personal data?

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The report comes against the backdrop of Facebook’s pending, initial public offering and illustrate that advertising models for social networks, seem to be working. Twitter gets 90% of its revenue from U.S. advertisiers, while LinkedIn depends more on foreign adverisers, with just 68% of its 2012 ad revenue expected to come from U.S. advertisers.

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The report did note, however, that both companies can expect growth rates to slow from their current levels. eMarketer is projecting 83% revenue growth for Twitter this year, down from 233% in 2011, and 46.1% revenue growth for LinkedIn, down from 95% in 2011.

Still, if eMarketer’s analysis of data from dozens of research firms, company information and industry trends is correct, Twitter will have revenue of $540 million by 2014. LinkedIn would have revenue of $405.6 million by 2014, fueled in part by an increase in U.S.-based advertising.

Speaking at the AllThingsD media conference on Monday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said the company has no plans to develop new revenue streams.

“We think we’re good where we’re at,” Costolo said, according to Wired. “We don’t feel like we need to add another component to the business in order to create the lasting company.”

LinkedIn has recently come under fire for its advertising practices. Its privacy policy allows the company to use users’ personal information in ads for the site. While the policy has been in effect for quite some time, it recently gained attention as messages highlighting it started spreading among users of the jobs and careers social network.

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