Happy New Year!
Comscore released its list revealing the top Social Networks and Social Media properties for 2008 (note, these numbers to not include December traffic). Google’s Blogger.com blogging platform is clearly dominating, however Facebook continues its meteoric rise and appears on track to imminently earn the number one spot. Myspace appears to have leveled off a bit, but is still in third place. WordPress comes in at a close fourth, demonstrating the continued growth of its blogging network. Windows Lvie Spaces and Yahoo! Geocities trail in a distant fifth and sixth place, however, Flickr shows a strong position at number seven. Scribd deserves a mention as it continues to grow as a premier social network for the sharing and discovery of documents.
Total Unique Visitors (000) as of November 2008
1. Blogger – 221,503
2. Facebook – 200,189
3. MySpace – 126,168
4. WordPress – 113,661
5. Windows Live Spaces – 86,760
6. Yahoo! Geocities – 69,159
7. Flickr – 63,866
8. Hi5 – 58,069
9. Orkut – 46,446
10. Six Apart Sites – 45,606
11. Baidu Space – 40,276
12. Friendster – 31,325
13. 56.com – 29,171
14. Webs.com – 24,230
15. Bebo – 24,149
16. Scribd – 23,524
17. Lycos Tripod – 23,350
18. Tagged.com – 22,300
19. Imeem – 21,889
20. Netlog.com – 21,1777
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Discussion
I think Google did a lot to boost Blogger into an easy full featured tool that is attractive to new users. I know WordPress and so forth is probably the favorite of “real bloggers” but I’m not surprised that Blogger is at the top
I don’t know why Google doesn’t give every person that uses Blogspot there own Orkut profile page it would quickly become the #1 social network.
Orkut will be a verb in 2009
I’m actually surprised Blogger is #1, and Twitter isn’t on there at all. While Twitter may not be a typical social networking site, I still think it’s up there with Facebook and Myspace.
@MLDina yea I would agree with you here, where’s Twitter?! Linkedin?
@MLDina Twitter gets only about 3.5m uniques a month, so likely didn’t get enough traffic to qualify. With all the tools (TweetDeck, Twhirl, etc.), you don’t have to visit the site much and “outsiders” don’t pop in to look, like they do on blogger.
You can see a report on demos, geographies and traffic of all the top social networks of 2008 at: http://shortn.it/qx7n
~Jim