Hitwise: Myspace quadruple the size of Facebook in US, but lead is falling

January 16, 2008 | Eric Eldon | Comments |

myspace-facebook.jpgMyspace received 72.32 percent of visits to the top ten social networks in the US last month, or more than four times the 16.03 percent share of Facebook.

However, MySpace’s lead is shrinking, according according to web analytics service Hitwise, which published the data.

Myspace is down from 78.9 percent last year. Facebook is up from 10.59 percent last year.

One would expect fast-growing Facebook to have more visits than these numbers suggest, however, because Facebook is much closer to MySpace on other measures of activity. For example, Facebook has 35 million unique visitors in the U.S., compared to MySpace’s 69 million uniques, according to Comscore’s latest numbers.

Facebook share of visits has grown more than 50 percent over the last year, clearly at Myspace’s expense.

What about the other social networks, including third place Bebo? They’re all much smaller. See Hitwise’s table below.

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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.

  • I wouldn't back too much on these numbers as they are quite misleading.

    pradeep
    www.go4funding.com
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