Facebook Fastest-Growing Network

By Anonymous

Facebook, the world’s largest social network, is also the fastest growing, with a 153% increase in unique visitors in June 2008 over June 2007, according to comScore. Much of the growth comes from overseas, the TechCrunch blog reported August 12, as Facebook began this year efforts to create translated versions of the site. The network experienced 38% growth in North America, which accounts for 49 million of its 132 million visits, while the rest of the world jumped from 16 million visits to 83 million.

Social networks received more than half a billion unique visits in June 2008, up 25% from the year before. Facebook accounted for 132 million of those visits, while secondranked MySpace had 117 million visitors but only grew by 3%. Copyright American Library Association Sep 2008

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