Facebook Chasing MySpace
Friday’s USA Today had an interesting table that showed the growth in page-views in August 2006 versus August 2005 for youth-oriented social networks.
- MySpace +249%
- Facebook +230%
- Craiglist +111%
- Google +68%
- Yahoo -6%
- Microsoft Sites – 8%
- eBaY -10%
- Time Warner Sites – 40%
- Comcast -28%
Source: Comstock
Facebook’s growth over the last 12 months has been impressive, and it has done it with a lot less fanfare and magazine covers than its rival. Facebook is busy shopping itself for a reportable $1 billion. Whether it is worth that or not is a question for the analysts. But with Yahoo and MSN both losing market share in the youth market, can either of them afford to not buy Facebook.
Filed under Social Media Optimization : Comments (0) : Sep 25th, 2006
