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Facebook Plunges Again
Facebook's social networking numbers
There's no doubt that Facebook is the 'most' popular social networking site to hit the scene. This one, unlike LinkedIn (although it has a whole other target, however users seem to be sliding towards Facebook recently), MySpace, and Friendster, seems like it could quite possibly be here to say. The proof is in the numbers. Shrel Israel, social media guru, picked up the phone and contacted the corporate communications people at Facebook to get some numbers straight, here are some interesting tidbits he found out:
- Over 150,000 registrants daily since January.
- 35 million current users.
- In September there were no users from outside colleges, today that user base consists of over half.
- Average visitor stays for 20 minutes.
- 47,000 Facebook groups.
- More than 2000 applications.
[via Web-Strategist]
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Subscribe to commentsJakeAug 18th 2007 9:54PM
150,000 people registering daily since January gets you pretty close to that 35 million mark. I know there were several million users before January, so to me this says that a lot of people are deleting their accounts.
Andrew SchrockAug 19th 2007 12:39AM
The numbers are interesting, but the downloadsquad comments simply don't jive with reality.
Facebook is not the most popular. By any measure, in the current day, MySpace has many times more users than Facebook.
Same problem here with calling Facebook "the leader" - of what? According to whom? By what statistics? Can't be the ones you cite, because they alone do not speak to if Facebook is a leading social networking site.
Facebook has been around since 2004, so to say they have "grown in extreme popularity in such a very short time" is misleading. They were one of the first social networking sites to gain large-scale popularity, and this is not a recent change.
Why would LinkedIn users "slide towards" Facebook? LinkedIn is a professional biz network. I'd imagine that Facebook users (mainly college age students) would migrate from that website to the more adult-themed, professional LinkedIn.