Myspace 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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Pradeep said:
I wouldn’t back too much on these numbers as they are quite misleading.
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Chad said:
I won’t lie, I too use Myspace, but I also enjoy my time on Yuwie as well.
Yuwie is filled with a great team of people and the founder of it all actually listens to what we have to say; and takes it into consideration.
That’s more than I can say about most sites who tend to completely ignore their users once they’ve gained ground in the market and are earning a healthy living.
Unlike many other social sites, Yuwie is taking a twist on the whole social networking trend and actually sharing a part of its advertising revenue with its users.
Sure its pennies at first, but its still a baby only having a little over 500,000 members compared to the 200 million of Myspace and is likely more money than you’ll ever see from Myspace or Facebook alike.
So, why not give Yuwie a shot? It’s free to sign up and you might be surprised to find that its not all that different than Myspace or Facebook aside from what I find to be a much more mature and family oriented audience.
Oh, and one more thing, Yuwie, DOES NOT tolerate spam. So, you won’t have to worry about being harrassed by those pesky porn bots with pictures of half naked girls begging to be your friend or the comment spam bots posing as your buddies rejoicing over how they just won a “$500 Macy’s giftcard”.
Yuwie pays by Paypal or Check, $5 cashout for Paypal and $25 for a check, and who doesn’t use Paypal nowadays? Sure Paypal isn’t without it’s flaws, but it still commands the lead over being one of the most safest and easiest ways to transfer money online.
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