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Shailesh Ghimire on February 16th, 2009

Seems like most of the news I’ve seen today and articles I’ve read centers around Facebook. Here are some interesting pieces I’ve come across today.
By the Numbers
A little more than a month after announcing it had 150 million active users, Facebook has reached 175 million active users–the statistic the social-networking site prefers to use, rather [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on January 23rd, 2009

In terms of worldwide audience Facebook is now king. I guess MySpace is still the largest in the USA:
In November 2008 Facebook drew 200 million unique worldwide visitors; more than 1 in 5 people who accessed the Internet that month visited the site. When sites are that big growth generally stagnates, but in Facebook’s case [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on June 23rd, 2008

From the Financial Times over the weekend:
Facebook, the fast-growing social network, has taken a significant lead over MySpace in visitor numbers for the first time, according to one popular measure of internet traffic.
Facebook attracted more than 123m unique visitors in May, an increase of 162 per cent over the same period last year according to [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on June 13th, 2008

MySpace seems to be gearing up to go head to head against Yahoo! and Google. According to a report in AdWeek they are in the final stages of re-designing the layout to make it more of a portal setup. This is of course different from their current page – which is more of a [...]

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