Top 10 Social Networking Sites of 2007
Top 10 Social Networking Sites
(Source: Nielsen Online, ranked by Unique Audience, December 2007. U.S., Home and Work)
- MySpace (2007) 60,104,000 (2006) 55,256,000
- Facebook (2007) 22,574,000 (2006) 13,110,000
- Classmates Online (2007) 10,748,000 (2006) 11,406,000
- Windows Live Spaces (2007) 8,856,000 (2006) 8,703,000
- AOL Hometown (2007) 6,853,000 (2006) 9,032,000
- Club Penguin (2007) 6,358,000 (2006) 2,688,000
- LinkedIn (2007) 4,804,000 (2006) 2,072,000
- Reunion.com (2007) 4,090,000 (2006) 4,327,000
- AOL Community (2007) 4,069,000 (2006) 5,213,000
- Flixster (2007) 3,097,000 (2006) 744,000
5 comments:
Is it just me or does this make more interesting reading if you look at the growth ( or lack or it ) that some of these sites have had since 2006 into 2007 ... a totally different - and unexpected - league table !
Adrian
I thought the same thing :) Even though some of the 'top' networks have bigger numbers, their growth % is either quite low, or negative. Also, I think LinkedIn's number is a bit skewed b/c I have at least 4MM people in my 3rd degree network and I am not the most connected person there by any stretch of the imagination
I am pretty sure that unique audience (the way Nielsen measures stuff) is more like TV ratings measurement. Don't assume these numbers have *anything* to do with total registered membership. Sure, LinkedIn has many more than 4MM members, but as far as how many unique visitors went to a LinkedIn.com page in December 2007, that probably makes for a much more accurate apples-to-apples comparison of site activity. This would explain why Hi5 and some others with obscene registered member claims that exceed all but MySpace and Facebook yet have awful, non-useful sites, aren't even on this list.
-- Glenn Gutmacher
Flixter 316% of growth
Club Penguin 136% of growth
Linkedin 131% of growth
Facebook 72% of growth
Myspace 8% of growth
Windows Live Spaces 1% of growth
Classmates online -6% of grwoth
reunion.com -6% of growth
AOL Community -22% of growth
Aol Hometown -25% of growth
Based on those numbers, but according to linkedin homepage, they have over 13mm people and raising every second.
Cheers!
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