It's interesting to these these social networking figures from almost 2 years ago. I think I'll try to find an updated version of these numbers for a comparison. ;)
Wow. Now this explains why AOL would plunk down $850 for BEBO, a social network ranked 12th out of 21 and down -81%. Yea, it makes perfect sense.
/sarcasm
Baffled Pai
Paisano
· 1 year ago
typo...$850 would make sense, not $850 Million!
Scott Monty
· 1 year ago
What's the source of the data in the chart?
Adam Ostrow
· 1 year ago
Nielsen Online
huxleyboyce
· 1 year ago
I think bebo will the talk of 2008 here in North America!
sikantis
· 1 year ago
Hey, great information. I like it!
Mike
· 1 year ago
It's not an accurate picture of what's hot and what's not. It's only accurate in showing what network has had the most & least growth from February 2007 to February 2008.
It's grown 102% Feb 07 to Feb 08, but that doesn't give an accurate picture of today. It's fallen 8% in the last month.
Lastly, these #s are US only from the looks of it, so it's hard to compare sites that have a larger INTL presence than US.
Marcelo Calbucci
· 1 year ago
Hey Adam, add Sampa.com to the list of Social Networks that you are tracking. Although, not a social network per-se, you can think of Sampa as "Ning for Families", where you build your own personal private place on the web.
joe_web
· 1 year ago
this is a partial view of what's really happening as only 20% of the world's internet population is in the US. techcrunch had a good post on the global view:
Its appears that facebook like many other social media sites are reaching saturation point with their users.
After the hype, fads and promotions have taken the users on a roller coaster of excitement, the real question remains.
Is this social networking App Worth the time? Especially considering we appear to have less time for ourselves than ever.
DiPi
· 1 year ago
Great Article Guys, How about looking for the same who´s hot or not between Europe and the USA? And some facts about the countries where the most user get on social networking!.
musiklvr
· 1 year ago
i love that there's a nielsen online rating system. ha!
i've got some stats i can show you. but you dont want to see that.
Carl
· 1 year ago
Where does Multiply fit into all of this? I would expect it to be ranked higher than Yahoo! 360.
Roig
· 1 year ago
Seems like a lot of money for a site that is rapidly losing the interest of its members. For me, the real gold standard is time on site. If the site is not sticky it is really not offering value and if it is not offering value it will lose market share and will be difficult to monetize. Linkedin is the perfect example: time on site increasing along with traffic.
Let's face it, a lot of the traffic on social networks is fickle by its very nature and a lot of social networks will never produce a viable business model.
musiklvr: you are one smart cookie. i was thinking the same thing about the neilsen online rating system. its probably as good as google traffic ranking, eh?
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www.PLANETwebfoot.com
/sarcasm
Baffled Pai
Let's look at Flixster... using Compete.com we see they lost 32% of their UVs in the last month.
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/flixster.com/?...
Flixster's Facebook app is suffering a similar fate:
http://adonomics.com/company/Flixster
It's lost near 50% of its traffic over the last 30 days.
Ouch. NOT Hot.
Your Facebook analysis is also deeply flawed in the same way.
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/facebook.com/?...
It's grown 102% Feb 07 to Feb 08, but that doesn't give an accurate picture of today. It's fallen 8% in the last month.
Lastly, these #s are US only from the looks of it, so it's hard to compare sites that have a larger INTL presence than US.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/27/the-global...
After the hype, fads and promotions have taken the users on a roller coaster of excitement, the real question remains.
Is this social networking App Worth the time? Especially considering we appear to have less time for ourselves than ever.
i've got some stats i can show you. but you dont want to see that.
Let's face it, a lot of the traffic on social networks is fickle by its very nature and a lot of social networks will never produce a viable business model.
Roig
http://philosophical-literature.blogspot.com/ http://www.anarsist.org/felsefe/ http://www.bid-directory.net/ http://www.anarsist.org/
a big mess of nothing.
go social!