Top Social Networking Sites in December 2008
AOL Community and newcomer SodaHead.com show the greatest year-over-year growth among social networking sites.
Across the Web, social networking sites experienced a 13 percent gain in U.S. audience from December 2007 to December 2008, according to data from comScore . While not at the very top of the rankings, the sites with the greatest gains include AOL Community and SodaHead.com. Here are the top social networking sites tracked by comScore for December 2008.
| Top Social Networking Sites by Unique Visitors, December 2008 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Property | December 2007 (000) | December 2008 (000) | Change (%) | |||
| Total Internet audience | 183,619 | 190,650 | 4 | |||
| Social networking audience | 120,201 | 135,715 | 13 | |||
| MySpace.com | 68,905 | 75,919 | 10 | |||
| 34,658 | 54,552 | 57 | ||||
| Flickr | 13,540 | 20,698 | 53 | |||
| Classmates Online | 10,002 | 16,553 | 66 | |||
| MyLife.com** | N/A | 15,018 | N/A | |||
| Buzznet | 4,973 | 9,781 | 97 | |||
| AOL Community | 40 | 9,208 | 22,701 | |||
| Yahoo Buzz | 4,864 | 8,724 | 79 | |||
| AIM Profiles | 2,587 | 8,618 | 233 | |||
| Webs.com | N/A | 8,053 | N/A | |||
| Digg | 6,026 | 6,844 | 14 | |||
| 2,868 | 6,323 | 120 | ||||
| imeem | N/A | 6,003 | N/A | |||
| Tagged.com | 1,156 | 5,778 | 400 | |||
| Yahoo Groups | 6,447 | 5,620 | -13 | |||
| Webshots | 6,625 | 5,216 | -21 | |||
| DeviantART | 4,102 | 4,905 | 20 | |||
| Bebo | 4,279 | 4,867 | 14 | |||
| hi5 | 2,483 | 4,047 | 63 | |||
| Windows Live Spaces | 8,912 | 3,846 | -57 | |||
| Scribd.com | 1,613 | 3,054 | 89 | |||
| BlackPlanet.com | 1,919 | 2,871 | 50 | |||
| CafeMom.com | 1,287 | 2,796 | 117 | |||
| Sodahead.com | 166 | 2,291 | 1,277 | |||
| Notes: 1. ComScore audience measurement data report n media usage, visitor demographics, and online buying power for home, work, and university audiences across U.S. and worldwide Internet auciences. 2. Data excludes blogging sites. **MyLife used to be known as Reunion.com |
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| Source: comScore, 2009 | ||||||
