About two years ago, MySpace boasts that they are still ahead of the relatively newcomer in the social networking scene, Facebook. But recent reports showed that two years can do a lot in figures. Data gathered revealed how Facebook is dominating the online scene with their gargantuan visitor number daily.
Traffic and uptime firm Pingdom recently published a report showing how huge Facebook's gap is against rival social networking sites like Twitter ad the News Corp.-owned Myspace. The gap is not thousands, not millions, and not 1 billion or two. It's a staggering 236 billion gap.
Facebook garnered 260 billion pageviews every months while MySpace trailed at 2nd place with its 24 billion pageviews per month. Another social networking site, Hi5, managed to gather the 3rd place with its 12 billion pageviews a month.
Micro social networking website Twitter grabbed the 4th place with a mere 4.4 billion views a month and Friendster, which was recently sold to a Malaysian company and is now updated to cater more to its Asian members, grabbed the 5th spot.
As you can see, this isn't based on unique viewers per month but on pageviews instead. This suggests that Facebook members have more reasons to view Facebook pages than any other social networking websites. Well, viewing hundreds of photos of your Facebook friends alone can reach more than 100 times a day.
Twitter on the other hand, who a lot are starting to do better, failed to get enough pageviews simply because more than half of its members do not visit the website itself. Twitter has more than dozen of third parties which offers Tweeting even not from Twitter itself.
Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/05/facebook-twitter-myspace-page-views
