Comments on: MySpace May Still Dominate in the U.S., But (Surprise!) Facebook is Catching Up Fast Worldwide

By: MySpace milevis foran Facebook · blog.notforsnowboard

MySpace milevis foran Facebook · blog.notforsnowboard — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:40:49 +0000

[...] tallene fra undersøkelsen til Hitwise med en ny post. Her nyanseres bildet endel ved hjelp av trafikktall, som viser at landskapet ser helt annerledes ut i [...]

By: Social Networking CPMs | Bronte Media

Social Networking CPMs | Bronte Media — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:14:09 +0000

[...] Now usage: It looks like comScore thinks that MySpace’s worldwide UV in the fourth quarter was around 100m uniques per month, up from around 80m uniques per month in the corresponding period a year ago. [...]

By: john

john — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:18:39 +0000

look at comscore numbers on FB demographics prior to socialads then due your own comparitive analyses – guess what comescore is over 500% off in some segmens and 157% off overall – net – comscore does not know anything

By: Dave Liu dot com / musings from the edge » Articles of the Day

Dave Liu dot com / musings from the edge » Articles of the Day — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:14:58 +0000

[...] In Global Game, Facebook Gains On MySpace – Facebook is “supposed to be on a rocket ride”, right? Well, according to Hitwise data, the social networking darling has a 16 percent market share in the U.S., compared to a whopping 72 percent for MySpace. But the Hitwise data “confusing” because the firm fails to qualify “market share.” Do they mean total page views or unique visitors? Worldwide, Facebook has nearly caught up with MySpace, according to comScore, with 93 million unique visitors versus 105 million for MySpace. It’s the same story with page views: 42 billion for Facebook versus 48 billion for MySpace. However, in total time spent on the site, Facebook is the new king, with 21 billion minutes versus 17. [...]

By: MySpace vs. Facebook: Who’s Winning the Stats Battle? « Social Media Marketing by Debra Aho Williamson

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:32:20 +0000

[...] TechCrunch jumped into the fray with some numbers from comScore showing that MySpace had 69 million US unique visitors in December vs. Facebook’s 35 million — giving it not nearly as big a lead as the Hitwise numbers indicate. In page views, TechCrunch reported, MySpace’s 38 billion trounced Facebook’s 13 billion. [...]

By: TW Garrett

TW Garrett — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:11:20 +0000

Read this about Facebook – You won’t believe all of this stuff that is going on!

http://www.thet...ue-to-facebook/

By: Simon Owens

Simon Owens — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:13:08 +0000

Probably a lot of those visits are people signing in to delete porn spam mail. That’s pretty much the only time I log in, and there’s got to be thousands of others like me.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:43:48 +0000

I’m a little anti-facebook. I have an account, and I don’t HATE it, but (in my circle of friends) there are sooooo many more people on myspace. When I look at facebook, all I see is a big clusterf*ck and 3286749826109256 application-add invites. NO I DON’T WANT TO BE A ZOMBIE, NO i DON’T WANT TO SEE WHO VOTED ME “A HOTTIE”, NO I DON’T WANT TO TAKE YOUR STUPID MOVIE QUIZ, AND NO I DON’T CARE WHICH SWEAR WORD I AM.

Myspace will always have love in my heart.

By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:36:32 +0000

i actually think Erick’s post is on target. the Hitwise #’s told a story that didn’t appear to make sense. his further analysis tells the more likely story of how Facebook isn’t as far behind MySpace as the earlier #’s suggest, and in fact might even surpass MySpace in a few areas.

as to the # of FB-related posts, i’m continually astonished at how you commentards don’t seem to get that FB and MySpace and Google and other platforms *ARE* the ecosystems in which other internet startups play, and are required reading to understand what’s happening.

if you’re a geek and/or entrepreneur trying to figure out the lay of the land with new tech startups & where the opportunities are, it’s pretty fucking essential you have a clue about what’s going on — or *ISN’T* going on — with the other big platform players.

if you’d rather keep your head stuck in the sand, then go play Scrabulous before it disappears.

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:16:37 +0000

@9, go tell that to Hitwise. It defines visits as “online traffic.” That could mean either unique visitors or total traffic (page views). It does not specify. Hitwise is vague on the subject.

@13, 35 million is half of 69 million (comscore numbers)
16 percent is one fifth of 72 percent (Hitwise numbers)

I am not trying to compute an overall market share from the comScore numbers, just compare the relative strength of Facebook to MySpace.

By: Miller

Miller — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:44:53 +0000

Marc makes a great point, visits are not page views… theoretically, a single person can create only one “unique visit” in a month (we call these uniques), but that same person can be responsible for multiple “visits” in a month or in even in day (normally a “visit” that you see reported is defined as all visits made with-in a 30-minute time-frame… so leaving a site and coming back 4 minutes later is still only one “visit”). Page views, well those are self explanatory.

By: Shams

Shams — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:56:31 +0000

Facebook will be far above Myspace very soon. Sure.

By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:54:47 +0000

Personally, I find Facebook far more interesting than yet another website taking an existing popular idea, making a cheap copy, paying people to visit it and acting like it’s a revolutionary new idea. Although that’s “interesting” in the sense that driving a good distance behind someone who’s clearly p-ed as a newt and waiting for them to crash is “interesting”.

By: Marek

Marek — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:11:31 +0000

So Facebook continues to grow in Bulgaria? Big Deal.

By: Boring Market

Boring Market — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:45:03 +0000

Facebook and MySpace posts on this site always get a lot of traffic. Every social network will turn into Myspace…because they all are supported by ads and get greedy.

By: otty

otty — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:38:15 +0000

Facebook=35 mil =1/3
Myspace=69 mil =2/3

Facebook % = 35/(69+35) = 30% and that is not counting
Google=?? maybe 50 mill users. Why are some people so ass clown shubert allowed to write stuff

By: Paly

Paly — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:13:06 +0000

Duncan Riley would never sensationalize or misconstrue data. His 30-45 seconds of research were enough to tell the story, so just leave it at that!

By: Slipboy Is Geh

Slipboy Is Geh — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:09:11 +0000

Hey slipboy, how about you go read the Drudge Report ya hippy?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:53:55 +0000

Facebook probably has less pageviews from all the ajax.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:33:47 +0000

Arrington, get someone who knows how to read webstats. It’s a skill like reading a balance sheet or map folding. Schonfeld, when Hitwise says “visits” they mean “visits” not “page views”. I think some basic ed on common definitions is in order here. Take some time out and take a 101 on web stats. Please!

By: TC_beats_recession

TC_beats_recession — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:31:32 +0000

How does TC beat recession and keeps post coming – see below.

Duncan: “Hey, Erick, I am going to write about MySpace and Facebook”

Erick: “Great, I will write a rebuttal of your article then. Phew, I was wondering what I would write about today”

Michael: “Great! If the folks get mad at the two of you, I will write a post swearing at them. They are idiots anyway – give them a crunchie pass if they complain too much!”

By: Blake Shannon

Blake Shannon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:05:47 +0000

“That would give Facebook about half the market share of Facebook, not one fifth.”
Shouldn’t it be ” That would give Facebok about half the market share of MYSPACE, not one fifth” ?

By: Satya

Satya — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:54:39 +0000

Is it true that Peter Thiel is moving to NY??

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:46:33 +0000

This is not a double post. It is an anti-post.

By: Tyler Wright

Tyler Wright — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:41:49 +0000

I concur Niyaz…
Why couldn’t this post be an update to the last?