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Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion (Jan, 2008)

Categories: Social Networking, Web Industry, Web UsagePosted on January 9th, 2008

Update Nov 2008: I’ve started a new list of data, with links to new sources on this page Social Networks Site Usage: Visitors, Members, Page Views, and Engagement by the Numbers in 2008.

Every so often as an Analyst I get numbers from some of the companies I cover (I’m mainly covering social networks now), here are some that I’ve received from Reunion, I feel it’s helpful to share this with my readers.

Sources
The ones from MySpace are handed to me from a member of the press, someone I have no reason not to trust, and the Facebook stats are from their own site.

Facebook

Quick Analysis: The hot talked company Facebook has the highest growth rate, and at Forrester we predict it to achieve the same number of registered users as MySpace in Q4 of 2008, or early 2009 given the current growth rates. The widget platform, which launched summer 2007 has had strong growth as more than 13,000 applications have been launched. Please don’t call this the MySpace killer as each of these sites serves a different demographic, with a different purpose, and different tools. Facebook is more of a ‘lifestyle’ play that allows members to connect to each other.

General Growth
* More than 60 million active users
* An average of 250,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2007
* An average of 3% weekly growth since Jan. 2007
* Active users doubling every 6 months

User Demographics
* Over 55,000 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks
* More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
* The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older
* Maintain 85 percent market share of 4-year U.S. universities

User Engagement
* Sixth-most trafficked site in the United States (comScore)
* More than 65 billion page views per month
* More than half of active users return daily
* People spend an average of 20 minutes on the site daily (comScore)

Applications
* No. 1 photo sharing application on the Web (comScore)
* Photo application draws more than twice as much traffic as the next three sites combined (comScore)
* More than 14 million photos uploaded daily
* More than 6 million active user groups on the site

International Growth
* Canada has the most users outside of the United States, with more than 7 million active users
* The U.K. is the third largest country with more than 7 million active users
* Remaining top 10 countries in order of active users (outside of the U.S., Canada and UK): Australia, Turkey, Sweden, Norway, South Africa, France, Hong Kong

Platform
* Over 7,000 applications have been built on Facebook Platform
* 100 new applications added per day
* More than 80% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on Facebook Platform

MySpace

Quick Analysis: MySpace the largest Social Network in North America maintains a dominant position as media site, primarily aimed at youth, giving them the opportunity to relate to brands and bands, as well as self-express. This site will continue to do with advertisers and marketers. Expect to see more TV and video networks to integrate and work with MySpace, who has the new generation that Generation X was to MTV.

Metrics
· MySpace has more than 110 million monthly active users
around the globe
· We are the country’s trafficked site on the Internet
· 85% of MySpace users are of voting age (18 or older)
· 1 in 4 Americans is on MySpace, in the UK it’s as common to
have a MySpace as it is to own a dog

·On average 300,000 new people sign up to MySpace every day,
this month we broke a record and had 4.5 billion page views to the
site in one day.

We are localized and translated in more than 20 international
territories: U.S., UK, Japan, Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,
Spain, Mexico, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, MySpace en
Espanol, Latin America, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and
Finland.

·MySpace is one of the fastest growing websites of all time,
we have:
·100 Billion rows of data
·14 Billion comments on the site
·20 Billion mails on the site total
·50 Million mails per day (more than Yahoo, Hotmail,
or Google)
·10 Billion friend relationships
·1.5 Billion images
·8 Million images being uploaded per day
·60,000 new videos being upload to MySpaceTV each day
·More than 8 million artists and bands on MySpace Music
Acts including Lily Allen, Sean Kingston, Arctic
Monkeys, Dane Cook discovered on the site by users

Company Details
·Launched in January 2004
·Acquired by Fox Interactive Media in October 2005
·Los Angeles-based
·Founded by Chris DeWolfe, CEO and Tom Anderson, President

Reunion

Quick Analysis: This quiet company is profitable already, and is making some strong growth with repeat users that are buying services from the company, as well as advertising. Reunion caters to an older crowd that is seeking to connect with each other from school, childhood, work, or locations. It’s surprising that this company has 32 million registered and is already profitable.

Highlights
·Over 32 Million Registered Members, and Growing
·70+ Million Site People Searches Actively Tracked
·7+ Million Avg. Unique Visitors Monthly
·700,000+ Paying Subscribers

Update Nov 20th from Kate at Reunion:
·50 million total registered members
·Adding 1.6 million+ members monthly (mostly adults)
·Nearly 1 million active paying subscribers

Competitive Detail
·Critical Mass of Post-Facebook Members, with 90% Over 25 Years Old
·Patented Technology to Keep Address Book Updated
·Proven, Balanced Revenue Model: Higher Value/Member With Subscription Model

Financial Summary
·Profitable Revenue Growth of over 100% every year without any external capital
·Ranked #664 in Inc. 5000 Top Companies
·4th Fastest-Growing Company in Los Angeles (LA Business Journal)
·Recently took 1st outside investment of $25M from Oak to accelerate growth

I’m thinking about publishing these numbers once a quarter or once a month, if you’re a company that’s in the social networking space, you can send me some valid and confirmed numbers at my email, listed on my contact page. These are not really centralized anywhere in the industry, and I think it could be of a service to everyone.

Update Nov 2008: I’ve started a new list of data, with links to new sources on this page Social Networks Site Usage: Visitors, Members, Page Views, and Engagement by the Numbers in 2008.

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  1. This is interesting data, and will be useful to watch over time. It’s always interesting to know how the data is derived, so perhaps some exploration of the numbers in future posts would also be helpful.



    2. Posted by Kit Seeborg on January 9th, 2008 at 11:47 am

  2. Kit, I’ll add some analysis right now actually.



    3. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 9th, 2008 at 11:59 am

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    4. Posted by Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion (Jan, 2008) on January 9th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

  4. Hi Jeremiah,

    I´m a spanish strategist, a new one, trying to learn things on this world that I´m starting to love. I´ve to tell you, man, you are my main source of Knowledge, thank you very much. I´ve learned more in last month than in the pervious one, owe you one. If you ever come to Madrid a dinner on me.



    5. Posted by miguelchi on January 9th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

  5. Hey Miguelchi, I’m glad to be a resource! It’s an honor to help you, thannks!



    6. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 9th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

  6. Hope you keep this up, Jeremiah - valuable SNS stat snapshot that I haven’t seen else where. Much appreciated!



    7. Posted by Zena Weist on January 9th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

  7. Jeremiah, interesting stuff! Haven’t been very aware of what is happening with Reunion, seemed to me on a short look in the past that it was similar to something like Classmates, but you’ve inspired me to have a better look.

    FYI, a little plug if I may for a blog post I made yesterday of some of the top Facebook cities in the U.S., U.K. & Canada if you and your readers are interested:

    http://jaymoonah.com/blog/2008/01/08/some-of-the-top-facebook-cities-in-canada-the-uk-the-us/

    Cheers,
    - J.



    8. Posted by Jay on January 9th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

  8. i know it’s hard to make applesauce out of oranges, but if you could choose a smaller set of comparison stats to measure across each that would be helpful to summarize, perhaps in tabular or visual format (ex: monthly uniques, time on site per day/mo).

    otherwise, very interesting stuff & please do it as frequently as you’re willing to release :)



    9. Posted by dave mcclure on January 9th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

  9. Oh damn Dave, you’re asking me to do more work? meh, maybe.

    So which attributes do you deem important?



    10. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 9th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

  10. When MySpace says active users do they separate out one user who has multiple accounts?

    My guess is that there is at least a 20% overlap which would massively impact the stats.



    11. Posted by Mick Liubinskas on January 9th, 2008 at 6:01 pm

  11. Mick

    Also the term ‘active users’ isn’t clearly defined, I assume it means 30 days at least one login and activity.



    12. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 9th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

  12. Thanks so much Jeremiah — I just passed this onto an interactive company I am speaking with, who says some of their clients are clamoring to be on Facebook or MySpace. This info if helps to put social media strategies in perspective. I love your site because I love the cold, hard data!



    13. Posted by Kathryn MIlette on January 9th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

  13. Your blog is very beautiful, I too like the



    14. Posted by lily on January 9th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

  14. I really like your blog



    15. Posted by lily on January 9th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

  15. Kathryn

    Glad you like the blog. Remember data is nothing without insight and interpretation. You need all of these elements to make sound decisions.



    16. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 9th, 2008 at 9:54 pm

  16. I just want to say Thanks.
    I like your blog, great info, and really helpful.

    Is there any data source about vertical networks?

    Thanks!



    17. Posted by Ronen on January 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am

  17. Jeremiah, is there a way to find out the rates at which countries’ networks on Facebook are growing? I know that the Israel Network (currently at 328,945) has seen tremendous growth over the past five months and am very curious to see how it compares to the growth of the Top 10 most-active countries that you mention.

    Thanks!

    Lisa



    18. Posted by Lisa on January 10th, 2008 at 3:38 am

  18. This is really helpful Jeremiah, as it’s difficult to find these stats beyond some very basic comparative charts. Look forward to the next update.

    Chris



    19. Posted by Chris on January 10th, 2008 at 3:56 am

  19. [...] Apparently the industry is starved for hard core data and facts, as I received quite a bit of positive feedback about the numbers I published yesterday. [...]



    20. Posted by The thing about Data on January 10th, 2008 at 4:34 am

  20. [...] networking statistics can prove elusive, certainly on the open net, so all the better to see a good summary of data from Facebook, MySpace and the lower profile Reunion on Jeremiah’s Web Strategy [...]



    21. Posted by TechnoCloud » Lies, damn lies and social networking statistics on January 10th, 2008 at 6:51 am

  21. [...] Owyang posted stats on Facebook, MySpace and Reunion yesterday. He has some interesting information including growth [...]



    22. Posted by » Social Media Stats Websites, Blogging, and Small Business - Har’s Site » Blog Archive on January 10th, 2008 at 10:38 am

  22. I read on Aaron Wall’s blog yesterday that Social Networking does not really generate sales for business’s. Is social networking just what it says… social networking or are business’s able to convert traffic to sales?



    23. Posted by John Beckley on January 11th, 2008 at 4:15 am

  23. John

    Great question, and valid

    Remove the term “social networking” and insert “Marketing” or “Sales”, it’s the same answer.



    24. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 11th, 2008 at 5:44 am

  24. Merci beaucoup ! :-)



    25. Posted by Jean-Claude MORAND on January 12th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

  25. I’m an independent analyst in mobile social networking. I spent most of 2007 focusing on the topic and last week finished a market research report about it which Informa Telecoms & Media will publish before the end of this month. For more information about that resource, please visit http://www.informatm.com/msn.

    I feel that 2008 could be ripe for forming an industry association to serve the needs of all those who are providing products and services for virtual communities. I have looked around and not found a place where the “players” are represented and playing a role in their own future. Do you know of one?

    One of the critical needs which an industry association could address is data reporting (consistent, clearly defined and eventually consolidated). There would be other objectives, of course, but I would like to hear/read what you think of the possibilities of forming an industry association for social networking covering on-line as well as mobile markets, and for such a body to pool the industry’s data in the way valuable data are gathered for mobile and telecommunications markets.



    26. Posted by Christine Perey on January 13th, 2008 at 6:15 am

  26. [...] Las estadísticas de crecimiento de las diferentes redes sociales son uno de los datos que más empleo ultimamente en mi trabajo. A veces es complicado conseguirlas. Otras veces, las ofrecen las propias empresas, como es en el caso de Facebook, como bien indica el  excelente blog de Jeremiah Owiang. [...]



    27. Posted by Estadísticas de Facebook y sus usuarios. on January 13th, 2008 at 10:54 am

  27. [...] Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion (Jan, 2008) - [...]



    28. Posted by Favorieten en bookmarks voor 13th januari | Cafe del Marketing on January 13th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

  28. [...] Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion (Jan, 2008) (tags: statistics socialmedia socialnetworking) [...]



    29. Posted by iJump.co.nz » Uncategorized » links for 2008-01-14 on January 13th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

  29. [...] Strategist Jeremiah Owyang, Sr. Analyst at Forrester, compiled posted some data on Social Networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, [...]



    30. Posted by diunSA | Social Network Numbers: Just Kid Stuff? on January 14th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

  30. Informative stats!

    But would anyone happen to know the number of businesses (business members) registered on MySpace and Facebook?



    31. Posted by Mark on January 14th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

  31. [...] Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion (Jan, 2008) [...]



    32. Posted by CBS Bibliotek » Blog Archive » Lidt statistik om Facebook og MySpace on January 17th, 2008 at 3:10 am

  32. These are interesting stats, but what I would really like to know is; what is the average number of page views per visitor for the ’social networking’ web site sector?

    I tried to do some reverse engineering but the numbers don’t quite connect.. I am going ‘guestimate’ that its somewhere north of 7 pages per day/per user. Do you think that’s a conservative guess? Can anyone (Jeremiah in particular) provide me that info? We’re looking at developing a more local social site that will try to draw users in to post/chat/comment on local happenings/events/news. Think there’s room for that?



    33. Posted by Eric Stevenson on January 26th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

  33. [...] point here is that it’s good to be #1. MySpace has more than 110m monthly active users (Social Network Stats:Facebook, MySpace, Reunion), while facebook has 68m monthly active users (The shy Mark Zuckerberg, founder of [...]



    34. Posted by The Moment I’ve Been Waiting For: Facebook Financial Numbers at Josh Kim dot Org on January 31st, 2008 at 10:04 pm

  34. [...] Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion (Jan, 2008) [...]



    35. Posted by Wayne State Web Communications Blog » Blog Archive » [Friday Links] The Practical Edition on February 1st, 2008 at 5:55 am

  35. [...] Jeremiah Owyang, Web Strategist and a senior analyst at Forrester Research shares a quick 3 analysis on big gaint social utilies tools on his corporate blog. You can read short below and the stats on his postings. [...]



    36. Posted by Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion | Hazman Aziz on February 1st, 2008 at 4:09 pm

  36. [...] This is released on time, and is a competitive move to Facebook’s application platform. I’ve published stats and demographics about MySpace (and Facebook here). Over the next 30 days, developers will get to play in the [...]



    37. Posted by QuickTake: The Web Strategist should watch the MySpace Developer Platform on February 5th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

  37. [...] http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008... [...]



    38. Posted by 2008, The Year of Facebook « COM917 Blog on February 11th, 2008 at 6:39 am

  38. [...] market cornered.  And even though Facebook does not win the quantitative prize for most users (only topping 60 million “active” users worldwide, compared to the 110 million “monthly” user…); it may win the prize for most qualitative impact on its users (and you can check out my Bridging [...]



    39. Posted by Data Double Liberation? « Meta-Culture on February 14th, 2008 at 6:24 am

  39. [...] look at some numbers on social network usage worldwide. According to Jeremiah Owyang, a senior analyst from Forrester Research that I ran into on Twitter, [...]



    40. Posted by E-Commerce Confidential Blog on February 21st, 2008 at 9:38 pm

  40. Hi All …. WoW now I know why this kid is so
    …. Wild About MySpace …..

    “On average 300,000 new people sign up to MySpace every day”, this month we broke a record and had 4.5 billion page views to the site in one day.

    …. Psycho Kid Is Obsessed With Myspace Submitted By: Break.com (watchVideo) — Look out Angry Kid here comes the Myspace Obsessed Psycho Kid.
    http://www.break.com/index/psycho-kid-is-obsessed-with-myspace.html

    All my best to you and your “myspace”
    Phillip Skinner



    41. Posted by Phillip Skinner on February 23rd, 2008 at 3:07 am

  41. There is a new social networking website http://www.wheresyourworld.com centered around recreations and hobbies and the pages dynamically change when a new recreation or hobby is selected. Check it out!



    42. Posted by Eric Moore on February 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 am

  42. There are many social networking services operated like http://www.orkut.com, http://www.myspace.com, http://www.facebook.com etc. Orkut.com is being operated by http://www.google.com. MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends’ friends. These are popular sites especially among youths. We can judge the popularity of these sites by seeing their ranking in http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.fortunehotels.in Alexa. Orkut has been steadily rising on the Alexa charts but MySpace is still significantly bigger than Orkut.com.



    43. Posted by MySpace vs Orkut on February 26th, 2008 at 3:46 am

  43. [...] однією з перших і наразі є самою популярною в світі (понад 110 млн. активних користувачів за станом на січень…). У ній здавна інтегровано купу різних звичних вже [...]



    44. Posted by Інтернет початку XXI сторіччя. Соціальні мережі » The Lair of Graywolf on February 27th, 2008 at 6:06 am

  44. Excellent work, we are the first finance engine to link our CRM to SNS’s and this has help prioritise our features. Thanks, if you ever want to collect wholesale inbound source stats (channel breakdown to each SNS as a destination) we would be happy to contribute or host/sponsor it. Great work, this could be a hugely valuable service.

    Cheers, Pete
    CEO
    saasu.com | the web finance engine



    45. Posted by Peter J Cooper on February 28th, 2008 at 12:52 am

  45. Good report overall. Good to see some analysis of usage across the SN spectrum.

    Can you provide reference for Facebook daily Photo upload statistic (14M photo uploads/per day)

    and clarify 2 items from following:
    “Photo application draws more than twice as much traffic as the next three sites combined (comScore)”

    #1
    Which facebook photo application did you consider?

    #2 which three other apps (I suppose you meant facebook apps ) from comscore report did you consider for this conclusion?

    cheers
    -ME



    46. Posted by Manohar Ellanti on February 28th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

  46. Jeremiah,
    Neilsen Online reported a 5% decline in the number of unique visitors to Facebook in the UK in January 08. Is this a one time bump or the start of a trend? Have you seen anything similar for the USA or Canada?



    47. Posted by Joseph Thornley on February 28th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

  47. This post is VERY old (in terms of the internet)

    everyone should click on the “Digest” and “Social Networking” category on the right nav to get latest stats.



    48. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on February 28th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

  48. I’m curious how non-profits are using social networking. I volunteer at an exotic animal sanctuary. We can’t take all the animals we get calls about (someone buys a mountain lion then realizes it doesn’t make a good pet — go figure…). At this point all the staff can do is say, “Sorry we can’t take it”. Trying to figure out a way to put people who are trying to get rid of an animal in touch with someone who is in a position to take it. Was wondering if a social networking site could be of use in this, but generally speaking the demographic is older and not necessarily tech-savvy…



    49. Posted by Pam on February 29th, 2008 at 8:11 am

  49. [...] albums on Facebook and add your preferred music track. This is a smart move, because Facebook is the number one photo sharing site on the web, according to comScore, with more than 14 million photos uploaded daily — it’s where [...]



    50. Posted by Slideshow company Animoto makes clever use of Facebook’s platform » VentureBeat on March 7th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

  50. Any good stats on LinkedIn?



    51. Posted by Grant on March 12th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

  51. [...] has 110m users, as of January 2008, according to this article. MySpace signed a $900m deal with Google in August 2006, to allow Google to place ads on MySpace. [...]



    52. Posted by Social Network Valuation at FishTrain on March 13th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

  52. We recently published an article about Social Networks situation on Latinamerica in our blog.

    You can read it on http://www.analytics20.org/web-analytics/white-paper-ii-social-networks-in-latin-america/

    Enjoy it!



    53. Posted by justo on April 4th, 2008 at 8:54 am

  53. This is great stuff. Do you have any new numbers being it is a new quarter?



    54. Posted by Dan on April 8th, 2008 at 9:33 am

  54. Jeremiah, in reference to the online “Social Networking space” in general, what are the demographic and psychographic profiles of site users.



    55. Posted by Bill Worthy on April 10th, 2008 at 10:58 am

  55. [...] lot of people seems to be losing interest in Facebook, but they are still one of the largest social networks and they are still growing, with more than 70 million active users as I am writing [...]



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    57. Posted by Rosoooabelt on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 pm

  57. [...] Forrester Research states Facebook and MySpace have different demographics. Senior Analyst Jeremiah Owyang says that “Both MySpace and Facebook serves different demographics with a different purpose and different tools. Facebook is more of a ‘lifestyle play’ that allows members to connect with each other.” [...]



    58. Posted by Social Media Marketing IS the new trend « iesha on April 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 am

  58. [...] http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008... [...]



    59. Posted by » Information Cascades: MySpace Vs. Facebook » Cornell Info 204 - Networks on April 28th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

  59. What you have to believe to believe Facebook is worth $9bn…

    A whole raft of hard-to-value companies are given “interesting” valuations - see the list here on TechCrunch - by that nice Mr Blodget. Tut.

    I’ll focus on Facebook, which is top of the pile and theoretically worth $9bn, or c 25x a theoretical $…



    60. Posted by broadstuff on April 29th, 2008 at 8:19 am

  60. [...] MySpace estimation: more than 110 million active users  [...]



    61. Posted by notes, thoughts, ideas and responses » Twitter is a micro-trend at best and certainly not mainstream on April 29th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

  61. [...] from TechCrunch & Jeremiah Owyang & The Barna Group Tagged with: christianity, Church, Internet, Technology « [...]



    62. Posted by $2.84 Billion and 110 Million and 38% « - living the dash on April 29th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

  62. Something like this you can find in the Netherlands (population 16 mil). Big social network (Hyves, 6 mil users), big schoolfriends site (Schoolbank, 5 mil), guess which is profitable. What about Classmates.com?



    63. Posted by luigi on May 6th, 2008 at 2:18 am

  63. [...] blijken te presteren op snelheid en laadtijd groeien ze wel in populariteit. Jeremiah Owyang heeft een boeiende lijst met cijfers over de twee grootste netwerken (Facebook en Myspace) en nieuwe cijfers van Reunion, [...]



    64. Posted by Frank-ly » Blog Archive » Social networking statistieken ontrafeld on May 7th, 2008 at 3:02 am

  64. [...] unusual for being on Facebook and many of our users aren’t, well, but many of our users are. The fastest growing demographic is users over 25, and I guarantee you that most people I know on Facebook are not [...]



    65. Posted by LinkedIn is *NOT* Facebook for Grownups on May 7th, 2008 at 6:10 am

  65. Hello, great article! I wished I’d discovered your blog much sooner ;) The data is sound; have you got access to a breakdown per country? E.g. the top 10 countries, how do they compare in terms of user base and activity?

    mw



    66. Posted by mw on May 9th, 2008 at 5:22 am

  66. [...] easier than ever ways to connect people, Online Social Networks (OSNs) are growing with a skyrocketing speed! Prior to their arrival, the set of people with whom we could share an interest or collaborate over [...]



    67. Posted by Psychiatric and social concerns of online social networks | Technology Business on May 27th, 2008 at 12:15 am

  67. [...] Networking, Technology — hthackney @ 3:34 pm I’m picking on MySpace because it is the biggest social network and was involved in both of my cases. However, everything I say is equally applicable to Facebook, [...]



    68. Posted by MySpace Can Help Your “Case” Too « The Harry Thomas Hackney, P.A. Florida Law Blawg on June 1st, 2008 at 8:35 am

  68. [...] gigantesques que ceux créés par les jeux vidéos. World of Warcraft aligne 8 millions de joueurs. Facebook compte 60 millions d’abonnés et MySpace 110 millions d’abonnés… Là, sur ces réseaux sociaux, de nouvelles [...]



    69. Posted by ePsychologie » Blog Archive » Quand les psy jouent le jeu on June 4th, 2008 at 4:36 am

  69. I joined another 100% Free Social Networking site called Yuwie and they have paid ME over $1355.00 so far for my activity on the site and the activity of people I refer to the site down 10 levels!
    I still have a MySpace profile, but Yuwie is much more fun and they PAY their members a portion of the ad revenue they generate from the ads!

    MySpace doesn’t do that!



    70. Posted by Vic Davis on June 20th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

  70. [...] first group look at the overall user base, the time users spend engaging with ‘friends’, the wealth of personal information they [...]



    71. Posted by Future Of Social Networks | The Next Engine: Beyond Campaign Thinking on June 23rd, 2008 at 2:03 pm

  71. Am loving your articles, businesses can now leverage the full impact of streaming media in all their marketing and communications with the HelloWorld studio. This is social networking on steroids! No more typing your emails - we show you how to send VIDEO email. Need to broadcast your message live to the masses? Do that easily with your own TV show from your own web or from our Helloworld platform. Blogging is easier and more personalised with VIDEO.



    72. Posted by Nury Barros on June 24th, 2008 at 12:21 am

  72. [...] Facebook servers, racks and racks of processors that get hot enough to warp the encasing Plexiglas. Facebook is now the largest photo-sharing site online, and receives some 14 million new photos each day, and is already a top video destination, but [...]



    73. Posted by » The Week in Geek - June 30, 2008The Week in Geek on June 30th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

  73. I am an avid reader of your blog and have been hoping for an update on these stats - are you aware of any new numbers out there?

    As always, wonderful post!



    74. Posted by Sarah on July 11th, 2008 at 10:41 am

  74. Sarah

    I don’t have them, and if I do, i’ll update this post



    75. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 11th, 2008 at 11:04 am

  75. [...] Jeremiah Owyang, Web Strategist and a senior analyst at Forrester Research shares a quick 3 analysis on big giant social utilizes tools on his corporate blog. You can read short below and the stats on his postings. [...]



    76. Posted by Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion | Hazman Aziz on July 13th, 2008 at 4:40 am

  76. Hi Jeremiah;

    Im a first time reader of your blog, but great article…



    77. Posted by Chris B on July 14th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

  77. Welcome!



    78. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 15th, 2008 at 3:53 am

  78. [...] off. There certainly is big potential since there are over 80 million active Facebook users and 110 million active Myspace [...]



    79. Posted by Effusia Blog » Blog Archive » Instant Messaging, Facebook, MySpace and the Workplace on July 15th, 2008 at 8:27 am

  79. First, interesting article. Myspace was not founded by Tom Anderson(39)and Chris DeWolfe(42). It was created by a back room programmer and brought to life by Brad Greenspan (Former Intermix CEO). Chris was working for Spam company and was assigned to Myspace. Tom was hired much later after Myspace was already started. Second, Myspace is clearly beginning to experience gradual extinction as newer, faster, user rich communities arise. Just as Friendster, the question is will the site still be relevant in 2, 3, or even 4 years from now?



    80. Posted by Keeping It Real on July 15th, 2008 at 5:49 pm

  80. yes your right that facebook,myspace,is really fantastic social networkings sits and facebook also have unlimited applications to add that is really enjoyable and more millions user are active and using daily one is me.



    81. Posted by sikandarrahimi on July 16th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

  81. I have experienced and read a fair amount of comparisons between Facebook and MySpace. One thing stands out- there are Facebook zealots out there. Really hostile commentary constantly hovering over poorly articulated predictions
    of the demise and “ugliness” of MySpace. Granted MySpace attracts the “ordinary” tech illiterate layteen-adult but maybe that is the whole point.
    Any dummy can make a MySpace page and get prompted to perhaps improve it (or uglify it). For some this results in shocking displays of bizarre aesthetics.
    However MySpace has not taken an interest in imposing many standards on
    how people should present themselves because according to legend this
    networking site was intended for artists and musicians. Tell an artist how to present art or a musician how to promote acid punk and your likely
    going to see a furrowed brow and perhaps other unfavorable body language.
    Try it out. If you get a good response maybe think about formulating a contract.

    Facebook is supposed to be more dignified, streamlined and coherent. To achieve this there are imposed limits to customization. This is great.
    It would be a shame if the demographic that loves white space and uniformity didn’t have a place to go to feel socially accepted and engaged. But what is truly interesting is the hostility projected at MySpace that describes not so much preferences for efficiency in communication but rather is more reminiscent of the first time the angry
    white male authority league saw Elvis Presley gyrate on Ed Sullivan or the first business executive seeing his daughter wearing the first AC-DC teeshirt.

    It’s a social phenomena and less of a truly technical debate. Add on top of this the obsession with beating MySpace at it’s own game and what do we get? More of the unwashed masses on Facebook asking for customization.
    What happens when Facebook becomes just another MySpace? Pandemonium?

    I saw my favorite band on Facebook recently. Somehow they made the page look kind of wild. Facebook zealots be warned. Be careful when competing
    with the brutish MySpace “ugliness” popularity lest you become what you profess to hate.



    82. Posted by Joe on July 17th, 2008 at 11:13 am

  82. [...] some detailed user statistics on Facebook and other Social Networking sites read Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion                   [...]



    83. Posted by Facebook Gets A Makeover | Thoughts from the Shelf on July 21st, 2008 at 9:44 am

  83. [...] Network Stats： Facebook, MySpace, Reunion] (Web Strategy by Jeremiah )http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008… [...]



    84. Posted by ミノムシ・ラボ（福岡） » Facebookとmixiの利用者数に関するメモ | SEO SEM アクセス数アップと売上向上のためのWeb・モバイルサイト制作 on July 22nd, 2008 at 8:01 pm

  84. [...] here. …. Jeremiah, in reference to the online ???Social networking space??? in general, …http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008…Market Research, Trends and Statistics - JupiterResearchGlobal online Retail Tuesday, June 17, 2008 [...]



    85. Posted by online demographics social networking on July 24th, 2008 at 10:05 am

  85. [...] Demographic profile. Each online social networking has its own demographic of users that range from a variety of ages.  We will see though that as time passes the median will increase since more people will have created a profile and become accustomed to the network.  Here is a blog post that had some good info. http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008... [...]



    86. Posted by Criteria for Selecting Which Online Network to Use « Doug Devitre Delivers! on July 30th, 2008 at 5:33 am

  86. Thanks for the post



    87. Posted by Catryglypebype on August 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm

  87. [...] to web-strategist.com, these are some astonishing statistics regarding Myspace in January of [...]



    88. Posted by Internet Marketing Tips » Blog Archive » How Do I Make the Most of Myspace? on August 7th, 2008 at 7:46 am

  88. [...] view Jeremiah’s article with the mentioned MySpace statistics click here. Share and [...]



    89. Posted by Well Dang, Myspace | Erik Reagan on August 7th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

  89. [...] When your customer base becomes contributors - the results are amazing.  These groups don’t mean that new Facebook sucks especially if you compare the size of these groups against the number of facebook users as a whole - more than 60 million active users as of the beginning of 2008 (source). [...]



    90. Posted by The "new" Facebook and Product Management « Sweet! on August 19th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

  90. this is good research. keep up the good work



    91. Posted by johnny on August 26th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

  91. [...] research by Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research (http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008…) indicates a huge surge in Facebook use, however, with growth soon to approach use on [...]



    92. Posted by What is Web 2.0 for Higher Education? « CSLF Connects on September 8th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

  92. Hello my name is Juan ans I am doing a paper comparing myspace, facebook, and likedin. Can you tell me what you think about liknde in? Thank you. This website is EXTREMELY helpful



    93. Posted by Juan R. on September 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

  93. TYPO!! I meant to say LINKEDIN.COM



    94. Posted by Juan R. on September 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

  94. Jeremiah,

    Can you keep an eye on yourplates.com, we have made license plates into email addresses so that now people can communicate with each other. Every one is already set for its use and no signing up, just input a Plate of interest and Communicate a message to that person. We made the software for your mobile device too, yourplates.mobi. We anticipate good growth this year and it would be cool to see you cover our number growth from early on. ~Andy



    95. Posted by Andrew Couch on September 12th, 2008 at 11:49 am

  95. Hey Jeremiah and Andrew, I’ve heard about YourPlates.com. It’s a great site!! I think it would be interesting to see some statistics on the growth of this company. Looking forward to seeing your coverage.



    96. Posted by Sharen on September 12th, 2008 at 11:56 am

  96. [...] http://www.wikio.it/high_tech/internet/social_network/friendster http://www.socialnetworkingwatch.com/all_social_networking_statistics/ http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1555 http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008... [...]



    97. Posted by Ciber NewsLetter » Blog Archive » Iniziative - Un pò di statistiche dai social network on September 16th, 2008 at 12:37 am

  97. [...] Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion (Jan, 2008) (tags: web2.0) [...]



    98. Posted by links for 2008-09-20 | Martin Pluss on September 20th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

  98. Hey thanks this will be very helpful in this paper i amwriting on the dangers and benefits of facebook and myspace…you’ll be mentioned in it as a refernece if thats ok with you



    99. Posted by Jasmine on September 23rd, 2008 at 6:14 pm

  99. [...] Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester says: [...]



    100. Posted by A Gen-X Opinion on Social Media | blog. Travis Bailey .org on September 25th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

  100. [...] Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester says: [...]



    101. Posted by Spunlogic Blog » Blog Archive » A Gen-X Opinion on Social Media on September 26th, 2008 at 1:30 am

  101. [...] Jeremiah Owyang on Social Network Stats [...]



    102. Posted by On classifications and typologies (3) — Shefaly Yogendra on September 30th, 2008 at 6:47 am

  102. [...] Social networking statistics [...]



    103. Posted by Did You Know 2.0 « Expressionism: espoused that life should be stripped bare & reduced to it’s essentials & raw truths through the artist or designer’s emotions & intuitions. on October 1st, 2008 at 2:13 pm

  103. [...] Social networking statistics [...]



    104. Posted by Did You Know 2.0 « Mass Comm 63, New Media, SJSU on October 1st, 2008 at 2:14 pm

  104. [...] Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester [...]



    105. Posted by Orkut, Google, Brazilians « Waiming Mok’s Blog on October 8th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

  105. [...] to Jeremiah Owyang back in January, Facebook photos draw more than twice the traffic of the next 3 competing sites combined. In November of last year, TechCrunch reported that Flickr [...]



    106. Posted by Facebook Reaches Landmark Milestone With 10 Billionth Photo | Stay N' Alive on October 14th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

  106. I enjoyed your posting above very much, thank you. I would like to be added to your email listing for your next social networking stats :)
    Mark C



    107. Posted by Mark Cohen on October 18th, 2008 at 3:50 am

  107. Mark,

    I have to rely on these networks to provide me with the data.



    108. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on October 18th, 2008 at 4:34 am

  108. take a look at great new website http://netkot.com/ that has just been launched,
    it has more features and allows someone to be different and not sheepishly follow the ordinary masses.
    One can do what all the other sites allow such as profiles, communities, upload photos and videos, blog plus you can post journals, event calendar, classified ads, email outside the network, etc.
    I guess there is room for everyone and every taste.



    109. Posted by Matt Holker on October 20th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

  109. [...] Owyang, J. (2008, Jan. 9). Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion (Jan, 2008). Message posted to http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008... [...]



    110. Posted by The Invisible Man: Speaking in silence on October 22nd, 2008 at 1:30 am

  110. Hi Jeremia! I am Alberto Gacimartin from Spain. Could you help me? I need know a stats about Facebook such as: percentages in Sweden, Denmark and Norway about: 1.Sent/received photos or videos; 2. Mobile messaging (sen one or more SMS);3.Mobile social networkers.

    Thank you!



    111. Posted by Alberto Gacimartin on October 27th, 2008 at 6:45 am

  111. [...] numbers for other large websites are equally depressing. Using social network statistics from Jeremiah Owyang of Forester from earlier this year, MySpace and Facebook have 8 percent and 4 [...]



    112. Posted by User Adoption « Infovark on October 30th, 2008 at 10:48 am

  112. [...] in the United States (roughly 20 of 22 million as of January 2008) on a site that has averaged 250,000 new members a day since the start of 2007 falling into the under 30 and college-educated demo, are all of these [...]



    113. Posted by Pop + Politics : Blog Archive : The Obama-rama Tour’s Adventure of Video Tagging in the Swing States on October 31st, 2008 at 2:59 pm

  113. [...] their words an opinions can stretch further than before too far more people. Myspace has more than 100 million users monthly around the world, and Facebook has 60 million with a 3% increase every [...]



    114. Posted by Power to the people « Julia McWatt’s Weblog on November 2nd, 2008 at 7:37 am

  114. [...] for X social network” and I’ve received considerable traffic on my very old post (way back in Jan) of MySpace and Facebook stats, even months later. Decision makers, press, media, and users are [...]



    115. Posted by Social Networks Site Usage: Visitors, Members, Page Views, and Engagement by the Numbers in 2008 on November 19th, 2008 at 6:21 am

  115. [...] MySpace has more than 110 million monthly active users around the globe, Jan 2008 [...]



    116. Posted by The latest numbers on social networks usage | BetaTales on November 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

  116. [...] la herramienta de moda. Facebook registra 250.000 usuarios nuevos por día para crear una comunidad gigantesca que visita 65.000 millones de páginas por día, introduce 14 [...]



    117. Posted by Nou Cicle: L’Hora » José A. Donaire: Diez usos políticos de Facebook on November 24th, 2008 at 3:23 am

  117. [...] number of new MySpace members per day would drop from 300,000 people to [...]



    118. Posted by Charlotte Bobcats to OKC Thunder: WTF? | The Sports Culture on December 1st, 2008 at 9:00 am

  118. [...] I’ve compared Facebook’s internal stats currently available from the company, versus those published in January. Basically, as the site has grown larger, a wide range of site metrics have been looking better and [...]



    119. Posted by 2008 growth puts Facebook in better position to make money » VentureBeat on December 18th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

  119. Hi,

    I was wondering if you’ve got some stats on usage overlap.. i.e. on average how many social services are used by 1 user?

    I’m doing some research on this.

    Thanks,

    Amit



    120. Posted by Amit on December 27th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

  120. [...] is of course another huge social network, with web strategist Jeremiah Owyang claiming it has around 110 million users. One of the useful tools Myspace provides filmmakers is [...]



    121. Posted by Social Network Marketing for Filmmakers | FilmTiki.com Blog on January 8th, 2009 at 1:33 am

  121. [...] summary here.  Forrester Research’s Jeremiah Owyang has a wider social networking survey here.  Carolyn Phillips at Millenial Marketing has an analysis worth reading as [...]



    122. Posted by Youth Marketing Connection » It’s Facebook’s world, we just live in it on January 15th, 2009 at 8:20 am

  122. Thank you so much, my debate on the benefits of social networking sites is now a lot more substantial.



    123. Posted by gunnersgirl on January 15th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

  123. [...] being 3% weekly of which the average time per person is spent on the site is 20 minutes a day (http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008…). Since then social networking has become the new way for people to make friends, find dates and [...]



    124. Posted by Who are you letting into your home? « Caitlin88’s Weblog on January 16th, 2009 at 1:15 am

  124. [...] (link) Orkut is a growing social [...]



    125. Posted by Statistics of Web 2.0 - gulati.info on January 19th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

  125. Jeremiah thank you for this info its awesome!!!!.

    I´m a Phd student working on my thesis about the use of internet and mobile phones for achieving a real debate between politics and citizens in order to get a real democracy in Latin America.

    could you explain me, how i can contact Social Network´s managers to ask about stats of user a little bit more specific.

    Thank you for your help

    Juan Carlos



    126. Posted by Juan Carlos on January 22nd, 2009 at 5:05 am

  126. real demographic data would say what kind of people use these sites, such as education level, income, background, etc. this post is garbage.



    127. Posted by jonathan avildsen on January 25th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

  127. [...] from TechCrunch & Jeremiah Owyang & The Barna [...]



    128. Posted by $2.84 Billion and 110 Million and 38% - - livingthedash.tv on January 30th, 2009 at 9:26 pm

  128. [...] Network Stats： Facebook, MySpace, Reunion] (Web Strategy by Jeremiah ) http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008... [...]



    129. Posted by mino64blog » Blog Archive » Facebookとmixiの利用者数に関するメモ on February 2nd, 2009 at 12:25 am

  129. [...] Network Stats： Facebook, MySpace, Reunion] (Web Strategy by Jeremiah ) http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008... [...]



    130. Posted by 福岡のSEO/SEM/HP/Web/モバイル(ケータイ)制作のmino64Blog » Blog Archive » Facebookとmixiの利用者数に関するメモ on February 5th, 2009 at 8:00 am

  130. I am curious if there is a demographic cut for social networks by gender and ethnicity. If we are target marketing a specific ethnic group, which social networks do they use? What % of Facebook users are: African Heritage, Hispanic, Native Lands, women, gay, disabled, etc.



    131. Posted by ahaahchief on February 10th, 2009 at 6:31 am

  131. [...] or young professionals, these sites are designed to help people network.  According to this article from last year, just Facebook has over 55,000 regional and work-related networks.  Their fastest [...]



    132. Posted by Why social networking is so important « completeREsources, Chicago on February 13th, 2009 at 8:05 am

  132. [...] [1] Web Strategy by Jeremiah <http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008…> [...]



    133. Posted by It’s Time to Monetize Twitter « Halfway Nerdy on February 15th, 2009 at 5:58 pm

  133. Jeremiah–Did you catch this story from the BBC suggesting that social networks are becoming email 2.0? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7942304.stm

    I’m a freelance journalist based in Japan and I’m writing a short piece on social networks for a locally published lifestyle magazine called Kaleidoscope. I’d like to get your view on the BBC article. I don’t quite see how you how you can think of social networks as email. Please let me know if I can quote you. If not, any comments just for my understanding will be helpful.
    Thanks,
    John Boyd
    Japan
    tel: 81-44-873-4103



    134. Posted by John Boyd on March 19th, 2009 at 7:22 am

  134. This is interesting. I am doing a project and this is extremly helpful! thank you!

    -mindy:)



    135. Posted by mindy on March 31st, 2009 at 5:38 pm

  135. Oh, and if I get an “A”
    I will let you know!
    Thanks again!

    -Mindy:)



    136. Posted by mindy on March 31st, 2009 at 5:39 pm

  136. I am doing some research for my sociology class and am looking at gender differences among social networking sites such as who uses them more male or females. What they are using them for friends, dating, networking. The age difference in users. I did find your information very helpful for some of my research. But was wondering if you had looked in to gender differences among social networking sites.



    137. Posted by Lierin on April 24th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

  137. [...] Facebook profile.  In Iceland 46.89%(!) of the population has a Facebook profile.  Last January, 1 in 4 Americans had a Myspace account.  It is clear that webmasters have a huge amount to gain in profit from our consumption of each [...]



    138. Posted by Open Source Music » Consumption and Moving Beyond Post-Modernism on April 30th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

  138. I still think that facebook is better than myspace because of all of the aplications and fun things you can do. Its much easier to use for me.



    139. Posted by Admir R on May 14th, 2009 at 9:52 pm

  139. Facebook and MySpace are great. The next thing they should work on should be data reporting consistent clearly and defined data reporting. I’m wondering if there is space for a new generation of social-interaction web sites?
    Lydia, editor of westhost review



    140. Posted by Lydia on May 25th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

  140. I thought the point of this post was to compare the stats between these networks. If the metrics aren’t even the same then there’s no comparison to be done. Thus this data and this post is useless!



    141. Posted by Anon on June 2nd, 2009 at 3:43 pm

  141. Anon

    That’s ridonkulous! The point is there are no comparative stats that accurately measure all social networks, so by collecting what we can, it’s one step closer. The thing you don’t realize is the numbers aren’t as important as the trends.



    142. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on June 2nd, 2009 at 6:35 pm

  142. [...] million people used Facebook in July 2007, growing by 50 percent to 60 million users in January 2008, 100 million users eight months later (August 2008) and 200 million users [...]



    143. Posted by Putting all those Twitter numbers into perspective | Societrends on June 9th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

  143. [...] January, 2007 to the present, Facebook grew from 60 million active users to 200 million, or at a 333% growth rate. Twitter on [...]



    144. Posted by By The Numbers, Facebook Trumps All Social Networks? « Garis Pang on June 29th, 2009 at 9:58 am
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