Agence France-Presse
SAN FRANCISCOâCompete.com
has crowned Facebook th
e most popular social networking website, saying it racked-up nearly 1.2 billio
n visits in January.
The Internet-tracking firm released social-networking website rankings that sho
w MySpace slipped to second place during the course of the past year while micr
o-blogging service Twitter catapulted to third place from 22nd.
News Corp-owned MySpace saw approximately 810 million visits in January, while
Twitter was visited 54.2 million times, according to Compete.
"No surprise here," a Compete reader using the online name Bauer said in a comm
ent viewable Wednesday at a chat forum at the US firm's website.
"Facebook has evolved much better and always has something new to of
fer. I donât get Twitter though, I donât think people care to read live updates
on what percentage of my burger Iâve eaten."
The number of visitors to social-networking websites and the amount of time the
y dwell there are considered key indicators of how well Internet services are d
oing.
Facebook and Twitter have registered increases in both categories while visits
and time spent at MySpace have stagnated or slid during the course of the past
year, according to Compete.
"MySpace is still the clear number two player in the big categories, but its tr
ends in some key areas aren't quite so dominating," Andy Kazeniac of Compete wr
ote in an online posting discussing the rankings.
"At least in those areas, they could be looking up at more than Facebook soon."
Flixster, Linkedin, and Tagged were ranked fourth through sixth places respecti
vely, each gaining in popularity from January of 2008.
Facebook is number one social networking site
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Facebook has had considerable success in 2008, they've grown consistently and t
he Compete.com data shows their growth trajectory to be significantly higher th
an MySpace.
I think one of the real successes of Facebook is that they have innovated quite
a lot over the last year. They changed their user interface and have been addi
ng a fair number of new features to their offering. This is really essential gi
ven the rapid growth in members they've had. As you grow your membership and us
er base changes. You need to change with them.
But Twitter is the real success story of 2008 with incredible growth catapultin
g them to the 3rd most visited social network.
I've written a bit more about this (and what Twitter can learn from Facebook's
growth) if anybody's interested:
http://blog.freshnetworks.com/2009/02/facebook-is-the-most-visited-social-netwo
rk-and-twitter-is-third/
Matt Rhodes
FreshNetworks
Where's Friendster?
Oh wait.. Friendster didn't improve much over the last few years and it got bor
ing. There's almost no interaction at all.
Almost everyone I know migrated or wants to migrate to FB.
Cool, will have to think about that for a bit..
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