Comscore has just released the latest data on Facebook growth patterns, which clearly show that Facebook’s recent push to expand abroad has paid off. The site has seen extremely high growth rates across Latin America, The Middle East, and the Asia Pacific. Europe, which accounts for a much larger user base, continues to grow at a steady clip as well.
North America still accounts for nearly 40% of Facebook’s monthly growth, but its rate remains fairly constant, hovering at an increase of around 47,000 uniques over the last seven months.
Earlier this year Facebook finally managed to catch up to MySpace’s total unique visitors, largely on account of its rapid global expansion (MySpace continues to dominate in the US market).
This is really interesting information. I really wanting to see however how Facebook is moving in other countries compared to Myspace!!
Steven
http://crenk.com
Ironically, the biggest challenge for Facebook worldwide development are local Facebook clones, which recently became rather powerful.
Ignoring the fact that Comscore has no actual access to Facebook’s statistics or logs, you might want to compare the reported growth of Facebook in those regions against overall Web or Social Network Growth during the same period in those regions on a percentage basis. You’ll likely see a much flatter curve, or something far closer to the organic growth of the entire sector. You’re not comparing apples to apples.
Comscore statistic is not accurate and yet bloggers and journalists kept repeating their numbers. This is the problem with the current bloggers and journalists, they have no idea how those numbers came back, they just blindly spout out the number a company gave and states it is the truth. Blah.
thats all nice but how much money did they earn? ZERO. next…
Money is not a matter of concern, as long as it is of great utility for human kind
And fb redesign should further accelerate growth, go facebook go!
This is an interesting bit of information. In a year, they more than doubled their worldwide users.. and that’s only including users 15 and up. Good luck to them. They’ve yet to tackle MySpace in the US society though.
hi5 had pretty good growth in the June WW comScore numbers as well — increased to over 56M unique visitors. We announced our take on the numbers yesterday in a press release http://www.hi5networks.com/prs/0723080.html
Facebook’s growth is pretty much predictable. One of the many reasons why is because it features tons of interesting applications catering to the interests of its users. Since it continues to provide interesting applications— from mobile game addicts to music fanatics, it is expected to broaden its channels in months to come.
My facebook account gathered some dust until recently. As an artist and art writer I find the global connections I can make on Facebook to be of great value. I also like the fact that I don’t have to go through hundreds of spam messages just to find real messages. Hopefully that does not change.