Comments on: Top 10 Social Network Sites

By: Social Media Optimization » Gathers.com and Borders Team Up

Social Media Optimization » Gathers.com and Borders Team Up — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:48:18 +0000

[...] A social web site with only 130,000 members is an extremely small group compared to other social sites. In November I blogged about the top ten social sites and Gather.com was not on that list and I have not heard anything that would indicate that they have broken into the top ten in terms of members or traffic. [...]

By: David Wilson

David Wilson — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:33:15 +0000

Frank, you bring up a good point in that most people have not heard of the last five sites on the list. I can sense another couple of blogs posts on these sites are needed.

David

By: Frank Antonellis

Frank Antonellis — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:01:55 +0000

Hi David, this is great info on the major players in social media space. Have you run into any posts out there that include a breakdown (description) on how each of these sites are similar or seem to do differ from each other? I began registering to each of these sites to get a better idea, and each requires me to fill out endless profile questions like “I’m scared of:” etc.

FYI, I pride myself on not being too terrified of anything, but maybe “sharks”.

By: David Wilson

David Wilson — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:07:05 +0000

Most markets have room for two dominating companies, so I think that there is an opportunity for someone to get close to MySpace in terms in size.
What I also found interesting from the numbers, was how more sticky some of the sites like Friendster was compared to Tagworld.

By: Sherwood

Sherwood — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:32:29 +0000

I don’t have my scientific calculator in front of me, but that looks a lot like a power law distribution. I wonder if this means that one social network will always be dominant, and that the best way to hang onto a tail position is to be 1) on the way up, 2) on the way down, or 3) a solid niche player.