Liveblog: Facebook’s first ever earnings call today

So far, Facebook's brief life as a public company has been a rollercoaster of finances and emotions. The company filed for a $5 billion IPO in February of this year, setting publishing outlets and potential investors afire with speculation on whether the young company could achieve publicly traded success.

The IPO took place on May 18, 2012, and it didn't go smoothly. With it came some new responsibilities, including the need to make privacy investigations public and report financial structures to investors, as laid out in the initial Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Now that the company is two months along, we will find out how the new levels of accountability are sitting with Zuckerberg and company.

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