Friday, January 23, 2009

Facebook Puts a Happy Face on Latest Numbers

The war between Facebook and MySpace to reel in users continues to heat up, with Facebook reportedly drawing in more than 200 million unique worldwide visitors; more than 1 in 5 people who accessed the Internet in November stopped by the site, according to a report on www.techcrunch.com.

In December, 222 million people visited the site, according to newly released Comscore stats, a nearly 11% month over month growth rate. Twenty-two percent of the entire Internet audience went to Facebook in December.

Facebook now has nearly 100 million more worldwide users than MySpace, which brought in 4 million new users in December to 125 million total. The page view difference is more dramatic - Facebook had 80 billion monthly page views in December v. 43 billion for MySpace. Just six months ago the sites were about the same size.

For more on the story and reaction to it, visit http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/facebook-now-nearly-twice-the-size-of-myspace-worldwide/

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