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FriendFeed Hits Nearly One Million Users; Grew Tenfold In The Past Six Months

Source: TechCrunch

Jan 25, 2009

Summary

While 2008 was Twitter’s hockey-stick year, Twitter’s little brother FriendFeed is also beginning to show hockey-stick tendencies in its growth. According to comScore, FriendFeed attracted 950,000 unique visitors worldwide in December. That’s a tenfold increase since June, when comScore counted only 93,000 unique visitors worldwide (and nearly double since September, when it was 550,000).

Twitter.com, by comparison, which is raising money at a $250 million valuation, has four times as many visitors (4.35 million worldwide in December). While recently there was some debate about whether Twitter has passed Digg, the real question might be whether FriendFeed can ever catch up to Twitter.

At the very least, these numbers suggest that FriendFeed has global appeal. ComScore counts only 172,000 unique U.S. visitors in December.

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Comments (3)

Michaelfidler,

Jan 25, 2009

@jasongoldberg (Off Topic) Besides my previous comments about the News Flash feature, I just noticed what's really wrong with it. This is a story worthy of a News flash. I need seat warmers for my office chair is not. There are people turning their tweets into a News Flash. This is the same thing that happened on Fox News. They have a breaking news feature(I can't recall what it's called), but originally it was only reserved for the most important news. When Fox corporate got there hands on it everything Michael Jackson did became Breaking News. It cheapens the news and makes the feature a flash, but not a News flash. Hope this makes sense.IMO, I think it is a good feature, being improperly used.