In April, Facebook caught up to MySpace in worldwide unique visitors (actually nudging past it with 116.4 million unique visitors versus 115.7 million for MySpace). Now the worldwide comScore numbers are out for May and Facebook continues to blow past MySpace with 123.9 million uniques (up 6 percent), versus 114.6 million for MySpace (down 1 percent). Facebook also boasted more pageviews worldwide (50.7 billion versus 45.4 billion). Maybe MySpace’s redesign which just went live this week will pick things up for them again.
In the U.S., though, which is the biggest advertising market, MySpace is still well ahead of Facebook, with 73.7 million unique visitors in May compared to 35.6 million for Facebook. And that number for MySpace is up 2 percent from April, whereas Facebook’s had 0 percent growth. So it remains to be seen if and how fast Facebook can catch up in the U.S.
As for the second-tier social networks, they have fewer than half as many visitors. Here is the breakdown for May:
Worldwide Unique Visitors To the Top Social Networks
Facebook—123.9 million
MySpace—114.6 millionHi5—49.6 million
Friendster—38.1 million
Orkut—32.2 million
Bebo—25.1 million
Right. Too bad comScore’s results are not accurate.
isn’t there any other things that are more important? or at least something that 0.1% of ppl care…
Asian and Indian markets are worthless though statistically. So shouldn’t the US lead out trump anything facebook has?
Plus advertising on social networks as a whole is not worth a lot because the users use Firefox and the adblocker plugin.
ahhh facebook - the easiest way to stalk someone
Way to go Facebook Guys (Y)
What’s really important is the amount of active users. Does anyone have the data for that?
US visitors is like the octane in gasoline. The less your % of US visitors, the less REAL market you have.
alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/myspace.com
United States 66.4%
alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/facebook.com
United States 38.1%
So with 38% facebook would need twice as many visitors to out perform MySpace.
I did our site too, which is far less popular
alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/sitespaces.net
United States 69.5%
We’re almost 70% US octane, which is pretty good considering that site is going to market my new PHP scripts for me. Who has the money to buy such software? Americans.
Congratulations! People of the world unite!!
Why no mention of Cyworld? South Korea leads the frequency of visitation for social networking sites.
Check out these staggering figures:
Percentage of population to visit social networking sites within past 30 days:
1) South Korea: 55% of population
2) Brazil: 41%
3) China: 27%
4) Mexico: 26%
5) USA: 24%
6) UK: 20%
7) Canada: 16%
- Scott
Newport Venture Group
http://newportventuregroup.blogspot.com/
It’s not surprising myspace has had some slow servers the past few months Hopefully they can speed them up and overtake facebook tho.
By the way, source: Ipsos Insigh, 2007
Blah blah blah. Facebook. Blah blah blah.
How do you think people like Zuckerberg were able to grow a business that was valued at 15 billion? He understood how to control his thinking and develop that killer mental instinct/discipline. Everybody on this board should understand the below principles.
1. The Law of Attraction
Neural research shows that when you think positively towards a certain idea or object, every time you think of it in the future, positive neural chemicals are released in your brain, influencing you to take a positive stance on whatever it is your are thinking about. The same happens with negative thoughts. Learn to control your mind and you will be able to accomplish anything, as well as be able to adapt to adverse situations. When you think positively, you will attract positivity, which leads to success. Negativity breed stagnation, fear, doubt, and more negativity (its a vicious loop effect).
2. Cause and Effect
We see the world of tangible phenomena; we don’t see the vastly greater world that gives rise to it. That vastly greater world is the world of cause. Newton used the principle of cause and effect as it operates in the physical, mechanical world as the basis of his laws of thermodynamics: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. What the science of Newton’s day did not yet grasp was that matter, energy and consciousness are not distinct and separate domains, but are all simply different frequencies along the same continuum. What they did not fully grasp, but science has now shown us, is that the principle of cause and effect applies not simply to the mechanics of matter, but to the mechanics of everything, including our thoughts. You must be practiced at creating the thoughts that will serve your business. The effect will come shortly after.
3. Law of Gestation
Ambitious businesspeople tend to be impatient. However, ambitious people must understand that patience really is a virtue. The Law of Gestation complements the law of attraction. It says that for every seed, there is a set gestation or incubation period, a specific span of time that particular seed needs to establish itself before it can unfold from the blueprint into fully realized physical form. Each of your goals is a seed itself. If you take the right steps and have the right mind frame, the tree with sprout.
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Oh and Shawn, you are hilarious, I like reading your posts
People still use Friendster!!
#3 Chris -> First, India is in Asia, and second, what makes the Asian market worthless? If you believe that the US tops out in everything, you are ever so highly mistaken.
On another note, I do believe that MySpace will receive a slight boost because of the redesign, which does look better than what it was before. I wonder what the reactions to Facebook’s upcoming redesign will be.
so…unlike many bloggers that claimed that FB will disappear, facebook is here to stay ah ?
wonder what these bloggers have to say now….
very interesting.
Ryan, Facebook provides stats on their … Facebook page. They cite 80 million active users.
PayPerPost and statistics pulled from a-ring-tone´s ass!
I think someone at Facebook just took a shit.
Are you going to do a post on that too?
Sorry, I’m a horrible person.
UV is only one metric among other metrics that one should look at…Age range, and disposable income is another one. UVs alone do not translate to revenue, but a UV of high income crowd will. From my own anecdotal data, facebook has a much higher disposable income/UV than myspace.
It was about time!! lets see if the MySpace redesign helps them out.
“Percentage of population to visit social networking sites within past 30 days:”
Those are super figures Scott, and I agree. Is there a source for the figures I can cite?
OMG!!!! I think a rebranding is in order…TechCrunch…should be called FaceCrunch. Seriously, the Facebook PR machine must be paying you guys well
This is what 500 million gets you…LOTS OF PRESS!!!!
ya I am Using Facebook i love that
Gone are the days when 1 country monopolized by 1 social networking site. Now people don’t mind maintaining profile in 2 social networking sites, and each country now has 2 dominating and competing social networking sites each.
Interestingly, facebook is common one of top 2 social networking sites in all countries.
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Compare with google trends for web URL visits:
http://trends.google.com/websi.....m&sa=N
Facebook has come. It can dethrone Myspace anytime if Myspace fails to clean up its own backyard.
@ Chris #3
Why would the Asian market be worthless? If a site tries to conquer the social networking site, i.e. Facebook, why just focus on one country, especially US, when there can be a lot of users from Asia?
This post though wants me to share to all my friends who are still using Friendster. Oh please, there’s more life in Facebook. (I don’t use Myspace by the way.)
oh well.. online social networking…whatever…Facebook tries to conquer.. lol
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