Posted on Saturday, January 24 2009 @ 4:21 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Figures from ComScore
indicate Facebook is now nearly twice as popular as MySpace. The research firm claims Facebook now has almost 100 million more visitors than MySpace, while just six months ago both sites were about the same size. MySpace's seems to have stagnated, while Facebook is skyrocketing.
In November 2008 Facebook drew 200 million unique worldwide visitors; more than 1 in 5 people who accessed the Internet that month visited the site. When sites are that big growth generally stagnates, but in Facebook’s case it’s still skyrocketing. In December, 222 million people visited the site says newly released Comscore stats, a 10.8% month over month growth rate. 22% of the total Internet audience went to Facebook in December.
Facebook now has nearly 100 million more worldwide users than MySpace, which added 4 million new users in December to 125 million total. The page view difference is more dramatic - Facebook had 80 billion monthly page views in December v. 43 billion for MySpace. Just six months ago the sites were about the same size.
