Facebook Up 194% Year over Year - MySpace Down 55%
| Manoj Jasra - Friday, October 09, 2009 1 Comments |
Hitwise announced today that Facebook accounted for 58.59 percent of all U.S. visits among a custom category of 155 social networking Web sites in September 2009. The 58 percent was the highest among all social networking sites sites, as U.S. visits to Facebook increased 194 percent in September 2009 compared with September 2008. MySpace received the second-highest market share of U.S. visits for the month, with 30 percent.
| Name | Domain | September 2009 | September 2008 | Year-over-year percent change |
| www.facebook.com | 58.59% | 19.94% | 194% | |
| MySpace | www.myspace.com | 30.26% | 66.84% | -55% |
| Tagged | www.tagged.com | 2.38% | 1.62% | 47% |
| www.twitter.com | 1.84% | 0.15% | 1170% | |
| myYearbook | www.myyearbook.com | 1.05% | 1.76% | -40% |
Labels: Facebook, MySpace, social media
Also highlighted in the data: Tagged's rise. I've noticed a much stronger influence by them as of late.