Facebook outgrows Myspace
According to Nielsen//NetRatings’ latest U.S. social networking site statistics MySpace.com leads the pack with a unique monthly audience of 61 259 000. It is followed by Facebook with 19 505 000 and Classmates Online with 12 661 000.
Facebook showed a yearly growth of 129%, outstripping MySpace’s 33%. It is however not the fastest growing social networking site around.
Buzznet.com grew by an impressive 423% – from 635 000 unique monthly visitors to 3 321 000. Club Penguin and LinkedIn also showed impressive growth with 268% and 260 % respectively.
In the Blogging department Blogger is still the most popular site with a 30 047 000 monthly audience. This constitutes a 49% increase from the 20 140 000 over the same period a year ago.
TMZ.com is second with 10 251 000 visitors and Six Apart TypePad third with 9 705 000. WordPress.com showed the biggest growth with a 398% increase over the last year.
Youtube leads the video website race with 55 135 000 unique monthly visitors, followed by vids.myspace.com with 17 932 000 and Google Video with 15 841 000.