Myspace takes No. 1 spot; a group of four followers

July 12, 2006 | Matt Marshall

Here is a graphic (click to enlarge) of MySpace‘s traffic growth over time (see the yellow line), compared to Photobucket (green line), YouTube (blue), FaceBook (purple ), and Six Apart (red line).

It comes from a post by venture capitalist Fred Wilson (read his post here), who gets his data from June’s Comscore Media Metrix numbers.

MySpace is now the number one site in the U.S. in market share of visits, exceeding Yahoo Mail for the first time.

It shows a general slowdown during the summer (somewhat expected because people get out from behind their computers and go do things). But it also suggests that MySpace continues to grow, while the second tier of big social sites are bunched in the 10mm to 15mm user range. And as Fred notes, Six Apart and Facebook have been relatively flat for the past year.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.