Top Social Networking Websites and Forums

The latest data from Hitwise suggests that the battle between social networks is pretty much a one-​​horse race. Facebook wins.

Top 10 Social Networking Websites & Forums — November 2009

Facebook gets four times the traffic of its closest com­pet­itor, MySpace. Twitter – so beloved of the media and appar­ently the word of the year – will need to increase its page views forty times to beat the top con­tender. It will need an increase of 50% to beat Tagged. And when’s the last time you saw that network men­tioned on the BBC (five mentions of Twitter in the last week) or featured in the broad­sheet press?

I must admit to being sur­prised to the extent that the big three networks dominate the area. Like many, my impres­sion was that there was much more of a struggle going on.

Bear in mind, though, that this is US-​​only data. Bebo is more popular than MySpace in the UK and Ireland, while the Google-​​owned network Orkut rules the roost in Brazil and much of South Asia. In China, mean­while, 51.com, Xiaonei and QQ have resisted western dec­ad­ence with home grown dec­ad­ence of their own.

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