Facebook – the UK's top social website
Facebook seems to be garnering more column inches in the press than the England Rugby Team at the moment. The latest rumours are that Microsoft are negotiating with Mark Zuckerberg, the 23 year old founder of Facebook, to buy a minor stake in the company that would value it at $10 billion.
I guess it’s not that surprising, given that across the world more than 24 million people regularly use Facebook and they are joined by over 100,000 new users a day.
Facebook arrived in Britain little over a year ago and now claims more than 6 million users. Figures released in September, showed it overtaking MySpace to become the UK’s most popular social website. In the US, MySpace has three times as many users as Facebook, but the young upstart is growing five times faster.
According to the research conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings and published in The Sunday Times, the top UK and US social websites are:
UK
- Facebook – 6.5 million users, growth rate 541%
- MySpace – 6.4 million users, growth rate 20%
- Bebo – 4.4 million users, growth rate 64%
- Windows Live Spaces – 2.3 million users, growth rate -1%
- Friends Reunited – 2.1 million users, growth rate 1%
- BBC Communities – 1.5 million users, growth rate 27%
- Flickr – 1.3 million users, growth rate 20%
- Piczo – 0.9 million users, growth rate -40%
- Yahoo! Groups – 0.8 million users, growth rate -1%
- WAYN – 0.7 million users, growth rate 80%
US
- MySpace – 60.3 million users, growth rate 23%
- Facebook – 19.2 million users, growth rate 117%
- Classmates On line – 15.4 million users, growth rate 9%
- Windows Live Spaces – 8.8 million users, growth rate 7%
- AOL Hometown – 6.9 million users, growth rate -23%
- Reunion – 4.5 million users, growth rate 4%
- LinkedIn – 4.4 million users, growth rate 163%
- Club Penguin – 3.9 million users, growth rate 250%
- Buzznet – 3.8 million users, growth rate 405%
- AOL People Connection – 3.8 million users, growth rate -36%
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