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Facebook dominates UK social networking as Twitter leaps

Submitted by Nikki Pilkington

Jul 23, 2008

Summary

Facebook dominates UK social networking with 45.29% of the market, almost double the share of second-placed Bebo and three times more than MySpace, as micro blogging site Twitter shows major growth. According to the latest figure from Hitwise this is an 188% increase compared with a year ago for Facebook. Bebo.com is ranked second by Hitwise with a market share of 25.04%. In the US it is ranked 5th with just over 1% of market share down 41% on last year. MySpace.com is ranked third with a market share of 14.75%. Together, the big three social networking sites account for just over 85% of the UK social networking market leaving only scraps for smaller rivals. ITV's Friends Reunited features at five, just below Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces, but both have just 3% of the market between then with 1.5% apiece. Top 10 social networking sites in the UK, June 2008: 1. Facebook 45.29% 2. Bebo 25.04% 3. Myspace 14.75% 4. Windows Live Spaces 1.59% 5. Friends Reunited 1.55% 6. Club Penguin 0.83% 7. Yahoo! Groups 0.81% 8. Nasza Klasa 0.75% 9. Faceparty 0.74% 10. Tagged 0.72% Read more by clicking the above headline. Read the full article

Comments (2)

Thomaspower,

Jul 23, 2008

Thank you Nikki

Nikki Pilkington,

Jul 24, 2008

What would be more interesting (for me anyway) would be a similar article, but about business and marketing being done on various business/social networking sites. Wish I had the time to do the research :(