Facebook And Twitter Growth Booming
UncategorizedThe popularity of Facebook continues to increase with the site accounting for 58.59 percent of all U.S. visits among a custom category of 155 social networking websites in September 2009, according to a new analysis from Hitwise.
The 58 percent was the highest among all social networking 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.
Tagged attracted 2.38 percent of visits in September, the third largest amount. Twitter had the largest gain in market share of visits among the top five visited websites, increasing a booming 1,170 percent compare to September 2008. U.S. visits to social networking sites increased 62 percent in September compared to the previous year.
MySpace had the highest average time spent among the top five most visited social networking sites, with 25 minutes and 56 seconds, although it was a decrease of 12 percent compared with September 2008.
Facebook had the largest growth in average time spent among the top five sites, increasing 23 percent in September to 23 minutes. Tagged saw an increase of 8 percent in time spent. Over all time spent on social networking sites decreased 20 percent year-over-year.
Broken down by demographics visitors to MySpace and Facebook between the ages of 18 and 34 still lead, as 32.27 percent and 26.96 percent of U.S. visits, respectively, came from those age groups in September.
For Facebook, visitors who are 55 and older increased 108 percent in September year-over-year while visitors from that age group to MySpace increased 26 percent.
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