Leading Social Networking Websites!

Okay, so most of reading this knows of MySpace, Facebook, and probably of Twitter. So what has the last two years been for these social networking powerhouses?

Firstly, lets look at some data showing the 2007-08 year(s) for MySpace and Facebook.

Top 5 Social Networking Websites Ranked by Market Share of U.S. Internet Visits

Rank	Name Domain	Domain	Apr-08	Mar-07	Apr-07	YoY % Change
1	Myspace	www.myspace.com	73.82%	73.59%	77.87%	-5%
2	Facebook	www.facebook.com	14.80%	14.70%	11.21%	32%
3	myYearbook	www.myyearbook.com	1.33%	1.29%	0.23%	475%
4	Bebo	www.bebo.com	1.09%	1.20%	1.25%	-13%
5	BlackPlanet	www.blackplanet.com	0.98%	0.95%	0.85%	15%

Note - data is based on a custom category of 57 of the leading social networking websites ranked by market share of U.S. visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context. Source: Hitwise

As you can see, from April-07 till April-08 MySpace has begun to loosen it's grip on the market share and coming into a little more power is Facebook. I personally enjoy Facebook over MySpace most of the time. A new arrival however is myYearbook, which in '07 was in the Top 25 but this year in the top 5! I can't say too much about this site being that I never used it nor know anyone that does...must not be all that great :-/... but it is climbing rungs to make it's way up the ladder with the growing social network environment.

No! ... I haven't forgotten poor little Twitter. I personally dislike almost this entire thing altogether. To me its pointless to have why not just text the person or join MySpace or Facebook! Yea some people just wanna be heard and doesn't want their information flaunted all throughout the Internet. Well I say, "Make the damn things private, or don't add more than you have to at all!"
Sigh, now that everyone knows I don't care about Twitter here are some facts:



In comparison, Twitter.com and Digg.com now control just about 0.021 percent of all web traffic in the U.S., according to the data. In terms of market share Twitter is 84th while Digg is now 85th! We can thank Twitter's growth from other social networks such as MySpace and Facebook. However I cannot forget that Oprah Winfrey Tweet! (April 17th,2009) It is not shown up there but trust that now Twitter is growing even larger!

And for all those wanting to know the most recent information.... sorry the most updated I could find with a few minutes of web browsing was the most recent yearly market share most recent monthly market shares! Watch Facebook grow!

Top 5 Social Networking Websites Ranked by Market Share of U.S. Internet Visits

Rank	Name Domain	Domain	Aug-08	July-07	Aug-07	YoY % Change
1	MySpace	www.myspace.com	67.54%	68.23%	75.04%	-10%
2	Facebook	www.facebook.com	20.56%	19.48%	13.68%	50%
3	myYearbook	www.myyearbook.com	1.65%	1.58%	0.46%	256%
4	Tagged	www.tagged.com	1.53%	1.35%	0.62%	147%
5	Bebo	www.bebo.com	0.94%	1.13%	1.38%	-32%

Source: Hitwise

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Source: Compete