Full FeedSocial networking usage jumps over 80 percent in a single year
According to the researching firm Nielsen Online, the United States has experienced an 83 percent leap in the number of time spent on social networking websites. No big surprise that Facebook experienced one of the biggest leaps, with over 700 percent growth in just a year. Figures should that users spent close to 14 billion combined minutes on the social networking site.
Twitter also experienced huge leaps this year with users spending approximately 300 million minutes on the site compared to the previous year’s figure of 7 million. On the other hand, MySpace dropped in favor, with losing about a third of its usage time. Almost 5 billion minutes were spent on the MySpace website, a significant drop from the 7.2 million minutes reported last April.
Other social networking sites that experienced significant growth include Tagged.com, LiveJournal and MyYearbook. Besides MySpace, Gaia Online also showed a decline in usage minutes. The full report is available through the Nielsen Online website.
Site: [Nielsen Online]
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hello,
i think every where in the world goes quick with social media….....here in holland
95% have a computer at home and about 5 million people make an accout on hyves.nl
i have not to much time while my company GoedHuys verf takes to much time….but i like the social network ohnly i think in ten years people only live behind computer haha not good
but ok
lets twitter ;)
Marcel Gioedhuysverf
on June 7, 2009 at 07:43 AM - LINK