Evolution of Social Networks in 2008
Comscore is a website that regularly publishes statistics on the most important sites on the Web.
Recently it has presented a comparison of the major social networks and their evolution during the previous year.
In social networks are included sites that host profiles, but also blogging platforms like blogger.com and wordpress.com, which also provide social network services. Also included are sites for sharing photos or videos.
The top ten social sites monthly traffic (number of unique visitors in millions):
| Blogger | 222 |
200 |
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| MySpace | 126 |
| Wordpress | 114 |
| Live Spaces | 87 |
| Flickr | 64 |
| hi5 | 58 |
| Orkut | 46 |
| Six Apart | 46 |
| Baidu Space (China) | 40 |
Below them we may found LiveJournal, Xanga, Bebo, Tripod, etc...
Comparative Alexa graph:
Whether on Comscore or Alexa, the strongest growth is that of Facebook while Live Spaces of Microsoft tends to decline.
Comscore ranks Blogger on top before Facebook, unlike Alexa.
More infos on TechCrunch.
To have a blog on a shared platform is not without risk. JournalSpace has lost all its contents, 6 years of many blogs it was hosting! The platform so disappears, as it is announced on the site JournalSpace.com.
The cause is not known yet: sabotage or OS failure.