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Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

terry jenkins — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:23:25 -0000

They are so big right now so a 10% loss in internet traffic would not even effect them.
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Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

SEOGuy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:55:09 -0000

Open source on Facebook worked against the community preference i my opinion. It is probably not to late for Facebook to turn around their declining popularity as long as they go back to listening to what the community preferences are.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

SuperMan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:08 -0000

is not a real issue

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Jerome Delacroix — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:43:11 -0000

IMHO, a one-month decrease is not significant. If it continues, it will be a real issue.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Ryan Hupfer — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:11:05 -0000

Well, the fact of the matter is that the more open that FB becomes, the fewer uniques that are going to hit their actual website. Although I'm sure that the Summer season has something to do with this drop, the trend of these social services are going to be less and less reliant on users actually visiting websites.

Imagine for a second the day that FB actually creates a completely open API that will let developers do what they want *outside* of the FB walled garden. What type of effect would that have on their traffic?

What someone developed a FB app that allowed you to pull up your newsfeed on your iphone without ever touching Facebook.com?

What if someone created an Adobe Air app that actually made the FB product better and more efficient?

The fact that I could care less if I ever visit the Twitter website is very telling of what is to come in the social utility world. Services will be more focused on foundation functionality as opposed to user interface design.

Let people use it how, when and where they want, right?

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Scott — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:17:27 -0000

How is FB 'becoming' a walled garden while it has an open platform, encourages developer participation, has API's to interact with other web sites / apps, promotes people-specific contextual ads...i hardly agree with your incomplete statements.

And why are people still arguing with the valuation of FB...this network is the most valuable portfolio for marketers in the world. Why? Because it's formal, people use it for business and personal reasons, and its robust...myspace, hi5, etc all allow you to make your page look like a damn circus with dumb nicknames as your heading...fb allows businesses to build portofolios for specific people, by location, interests, and the ability to draw certain connections i.e "brian x is interested in movies x y z and so is their friend sarah"...

sorry for ranting, but i really don't understand how you don't see the marketing potential. especially with all of the new business-savvy executives coming into play "crossing the chasm"..things will definitely progress in the short future..

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

ant — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:01:54 -0000

need a couple more months before anyone should get excited, and if it is well these things happen

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Arturo Servin — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:41:34 -0000

It is not a bubble. We just got tired of FB and their apps.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Iago — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:21:06 -0000

Perhaps you spend too much time in space.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Stuey — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:00:12 -0000

Have to say I reckon FB has upped it's game since the malaise it was in back at the turn of the year.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Gab Goldenberg — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:39:05 -0000

The problem as I see it is increasing spam, and capacities to spam. My girlfriend got added by someone she doesn't know who started chatting with her randomly. Another person added her whom she doesn't know and sent a message/wallpost about 'guess who's at xyz dating site'.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Paul King — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:54:42 -0000

I was thinking even a few days ago when I read the billionth article on how rich that kid is who started it -- "how long are people going to put up with making this kid money?" ... I mean, the news always comments on the valuation and how much money it's worth... like it would be COMPLETELY irrelivant if it weren't for how much money it's making that kid and his investors.... which, yeah, I suppose it is... in my life anyhow.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

MaxGladwell — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:05:22 -0000

This is indicative of two things: first, people are waking up to the reality of Facebook as a walled garden that's going in the opposite direction of utility. And now that Microsoft is calling the shots, the exodus will continue.

But the bigger issue is that pure social networking is not a business model. That's why LinkedIn is cranking. Everyone is there for a purpose other than to socialize. And they've leveraged that into a multiple revenue streams.

Facebook will be lucky if MS offers them $3B, and even that is ridiculous. YouTube was overpriced at $1.65B, and they still haven't figured out how to make money on it. Though it has a lot more promise than Facebook.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Mark Roddis — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:44:51 -0000

Here we go again.

This is exaclty what happened to the Internet in the late 90s' where we had immature companies with inflated values and no real substance to back all that up. By example, Facebook quoted 250million users. The numbers in this report show the real number to be 24million. That's less than 10%

With a US depression almost a certainty I would suggest that the whole social 2.0 thing will be the biggest casualty.

It will force the industry to grow up and there will be heavy losses but coming out of the other side we will see this technolgy mature into a mainstream technology with real business models.

The only downside is that the winners will be the usual technology and media companies.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Facebook Decline — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:37:07 -0000

Alas, another reason why the Facebook honeymoon will soon come to an end (as will their $15B valuation).

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Ben — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:55:10 -0000

As a stalwart facebooker myself, I must say that I too am a little bit bugged by their more recent tactics. I still enjoy using it, don't get me wrong... but it bugs me how all the applications want ALL your information and so many of them require you to send invites to your friends... I'll still keep using though. :)

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Mark Forstneger — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:22:18 -0000

Bingo! Exactly what I thought. Traffic went down in December when they were on Christmas break. Traffic went down in April when they were finishing end-of-semester projects and papers, and studying for finals.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Project — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:51:07 -0000

I am looking at other Nielsen country data for Facebook and the trend is still upwards.

UK for instance went from 9.8m > 10.2m

I think that all we can conclude is that the huge growth has slowed down and these small changes month on month will become the norm, as everybody who wants a Facebook account has one.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Sam — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:40:35 -0000

Unique users are not traffic. Please use more precise terminology when you are reporting analytics.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Adam Ostrow — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:53:06 -0000

I was thinking seasonality, but stats from last year show traffic grew from March to April.

Good point about the apps - while I don't think they are mainstream enough yet to make a significant dent in traffic, it certainly will if they take off. It's similar to how FriendFeed might start to take traffic away from blogs, photo sites, Twitter, etc ...

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Tierney — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:52:15 -0000

The traffic decline is my fault, I take responsibility - and blame Twitter:)

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

karl long — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:31:17 -0000

I wish there were stats for Ning, I believe the growth will be in the products and services that serve the niches.

Re: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

Isaac — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:27:18 -0000

It's almost Summer. Summer is traditionally a slow season for publishers...