techcrunch.com - 1/13/2009
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Year end Comscore numbers for the U.S. audience are out. The first thing we checked? How the major social networks are doing.
Facebook, which became the largest worldwide social network in mid 2008, is still playing catch up to MySpace in the U.S. They have 54.5 million monthly unique ...
obsessable.com - 1/13/2009
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obsessable.com —
While Facebook has seemed like king of the
social networking sites for a while now , boasting
the greatest number of new sign-ups, it's been engaged in a long game of catch-up with MySpace, one that finally looks like it may win in the coming year . The past year has seen a steady increase in
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Facebook set to overtake MySpace in U.S. popularity this ...
readwriteweb.com - 1/9/2009
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readwriteweb.com —
Last night at the offices of blogging software
company Six Apart, engineers and social media specialists from
a number of companies large and small met to discuss proposed standards for the future of "activity streams" - the system of displaying ...
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Google, Facebook, MySpace and More Meet to Talk Activity ...
dialaphone.co.uk - 1/8/2009
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dialaphone.co.uk —
Facebook is one of the top social networking
websites with more than 140 million active users, each
with an average of 100 friends and 13 million which update their status daily. Founded in 2004 and with an Alexa traffic rank of 5, this level of ...
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INQ 1 : The Ultimate Review | Dedicated to Facebook | Dial-a
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Facebook Within One Year Of A Win Over MySpace?
WebProNews Feed —
... 's gone ahead and given the win to Facebook. comScore found that Facebook attracted 54.5 million unique American visitors in December. MySpace received almost 76 million, which makes its audience about 39 percent larger."But Facebook's growth rate in the U.S. averaged 3.8% per month over the last twelve months," as Michael Arrington points out, and "MySpace's U.S. growth rate is 0.8% per month. That's nothing to be ashamed of, but unless things change a lot, Facebook will overtake MySpace to become the largest social network in the U.S. in . . . . January 2010, a year ...
In US, Myspace Still on Top, but Facebook Gaining Fast
AppScout —
... Myspace's current growth rate is 0.8-percent a month, with Facebook's at around 3.8-percent. If trends continue like this, according to TechCrunch, Facebook will be on top by January of next year, with 86 million uniques to Myspace's 82. ...
Facebook set to overtake MySpace in U.S. popularity this year
Obsessable News Feed —
... , boasting the greatest number of new sign-ups, it's been engaged in a long game of catch-up with MySpace, one that finally looks like it may win in the coming year. The past year has seen a steady increase in the number of U.S. internet users connecting to Facebook, while MySpace's visitor counts remain more or less stagnant. The latest numbers show around 55 million U.S. visitors to Facebook, compared to 76 million for MySpace. This is up from under 40 million for Facebook at this time last year. ...
ComScore: In U.S., MySpace-Facebook race goes on
Webware.com —
... Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has done some, uh, crunching: he estimates that at current growth rates, Facebook's U.S. audience will overtake MySpace's early in 2010. ...
Will News Corp.’s bigger worries cause MySpace to be passed by Facebook?
Between the Lines —
... in on the larger macro economic picture and the impact of advertising slowdowns on its newspaper and television businesses. But social networking giant MySpace also should be something to watch as this could be its final year as the No. 1 social networking site in the United States. Facebook, which already has the top seat worldwide, is on a growth swing that could send it sailing past MySpace, which has had relatively flat growth, in 2010. At least that’s the conclusion drawn by TechCrunch after analyzing comScore figures: Facebook, which became the largest worldwide social ...
Are Compete’s Facebook Numbers Really That Far Off?
All Facebook —
... in the United States. This month the company is reporting that Facebook attracted 10 million more visitors than MySpace in January. Are Compete’s numbers really far off? According to numbers that Mike Arrington published from comScore, MySpace attracted 20 million more users than Facebook last month. ...
Facebook is Ready to Rule the (Social Network) World
Today @ PC World —
... , where IE's crown has slowly but steadily been slipping away. Here, though, the shift is even more extreme. Some tech bloggers have already placed their bets on 2010 for a formal change of guards. Twitter Integration Add this into the Facebook win column, too: Just today, Twitter desktop utility ...
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techcrunch.com 1/23/2009 —
In November 2008 Facebook drew 200 million unique worldwide visitors; more than 1 in 5 people who accessed the Internet that month visited the site. When sites are that big growth generally stagnates, but in Facebook’s case it’s still ...
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business.smh.com.au 2/12/2009 — Rupert Murdoch will not be happy but the co-founder of MySpace's parent company before it was sold to News Corp in 2005 says the global battle against Facebook is over. Facebook, said Los Angeles-based Brett Brewer, will dominate MySpace in worldwide ...
MySpace Quietly Begins Encouraging Users To Use Their Real Names
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Making Money On MySpace: Payments and Virtual Gifts Coming Soon
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