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Re: Facebook’s traffic growth leaving rivals in the dust

Website design Lancashire — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:13:24 -0000

Hi Eric now its only Facebook allover all other social Networks are just passing there time only a fresh social network with lot of feature that are enjoyed by majority of persons can give competition to Facebook :) .

Re: Facebook’s traffic growth leaving rivals in the dust

Robin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:28:05 -0000

3rd para, I think Myspace had more that 121 uniques in November... ("million" missing methinks!)

Apart from that interesting stuff on the discrepency between numbers - would be cool to see something historical around the differences in traffic reported bycomscore facebook et al.

Re: Facebook’s traffic growth leaving rivals in the dust

Eric Rosser Eldon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:31:38 -0000

Mtz, that's an interesting point. Any web service that uses the concept of "friends" has the same problem (see: Twitter). First of all, it's up to users to figure out who their friends are. But web services can make recommendations, and provide filtering for information from friends to make themselves more useful. Facebook has kinda moved in this direction through the option to categorize your friends into lists. You can sort your Facebook news feed based on these lists, for example, to help you cut through the noise.

Re: Facebook’s traffic growth leaving rivals in the dust

Mtz — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:04:55 -0000

I think Facebook can be beaten at its own game. Myspace had the problem that it became too bloated and people started adding strangers as friends. While Facebook solved the latter problem, I still experience and see that it is becoming a problem that people are adding people they remotely know as friends. If a dead simple site can be made which encourages only your real friends to be in your circle (say only your closest 50-75 friends who you ACTUALLY care about) and tightly integrates just a newsfeed, wall, status updates, and photos, then it could be quite successful.

Re: Facebook’s traffic growth leaving rivals in the dust

Eric Rosser Eldon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:55:17 -0000

ah right. oops. fixing.

Re: Facebook’s traffic growth leaving rivals in the dust

Richard — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:53:04 -0000

I'm not sure that first chart is right - it says there were 200,000,000,000 unique visitors to Facebook in November... Maybe the scale should be in thousands, not millions ;/