socialmedian: Facebook U.S. Visits Increase 194% Over Past Year; Tagged is Beating Twitter?

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Facebook U.S. Visits Increase 194% Over Past Year; Tagged is Beating Twitter?

Source: readwriteweb

Oct 28, 2009

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New data released from Experian Hitwise reconfirms what we've known for some time: Facebook is killing the other social networks. Nowhere is that more true than here in the U.S. where they found that the visits to the site have increased 194% from September of last year to September 2009. However, it's Twitter that's seen the largest year-over-year increase in visits - during that same time period, they're up 1170%. But one of the oddest findings being reported is how the social network known as Tagged is beating out Twitter for the number three spot in terms of visits to social networking sites.

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MySpace Declines, Facebook and Twitter Grow

According to Experian, nearly 59% of all the social networking visits were visits to Facebook while only 30% were to MySpace - a 55% decrease in market share over the past year in terms of visits for the one-time king of social networks.

Looking at just the year-over-year percent change may give you the impression that Twitter's popularity is through the roof. After all, they posted an increase of over 1000 percentage

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