User Growth Slows Across Major Social Networks
MySpace may be experiencing the greatest decline, but unique user visits are flat or declining slightly across most major social networks. Twitter, Facebook and MySpace are each aggressively rolling out new features, but none have yet had a major impact on traffic.
Don't extrapolate from this data that social networking is dying. Rather,it may have just reached a user saturation point where any further growth comes more slowly and at the expense of a competitor. For now, however, mass social networking is a still three headed monster and all three mouths need to be fed.
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I would recommend an article on the Facebook vs. X Factor situation that’s gaining a lot of traction here in the UK. It’s rather extraordinary to witness.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8415750.stm
Also this Bruce. It’s a revolution.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2774226/Rage-Against-The-Machine-Let-the-people-decide-over-Christmas-No1-with-Joe-McElderry.html
Good post but it’s “dying” not “dieing”.
Thanks. Its corrected. As you can tell I need proof reading help…..
If you compare “visits” rather than “unique visitors” on Compete, then you’ll see that Facebook is rocking a solid upward trend. In other words, on Facebook user growth may be leveling a bit, but user usage is growing steadily. You may be interested in a visualization for music websites: virtualmusic.tv/eT9y
^Great point Ryan!