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Only two weeks ago I wrote that Facebook was dominating the internet (and Twitter) based on the latest Hitwise statistics. Two weeks later Compete is showing a similar trend with Facebook growing 3 percent domestically over the past month while Twitter drops by around 2 percent. As I mentioned last month though, direct traffic to the Twitter.com site may not be a good indicator of activity on the site.
More important to Twitter is the total number of users posting updates to the site and the total volume of tweets on a periodic basis. Even still, Facebook continues to open up their platform to make it accessible via other applications and traffic continues to boom. The growth is so significant that the latest statistics show Facebook nearing Yahoo in Google in terms of number of monthly visitors to the site.
As usual, Facebook has nothing but a bright future ahead based on the latest statistics. We’ve already projected Facebook to come close to the 375 million user mark by the end of the year and if the company can stay at this pace they should easily surpass 600 million users next year. We’ll continue to cover the company’s growth as it continues!
The numbers are amazing. Thanks for the quick update based on the latest traffic statistics. Compete also shows the number of pageviews at 119 billion, and increase from 104 billion last month.
Coincidentally, I just wrote a post called FaceYahoogle about how much traffic Facebook, Yahoo, and Google send major websites across the web. Of course Google was dominant, but Facebook was consistently in the top 5 (and many times in the top 3). In addition, downstream data from the sites I analyzed showed traffic going back to those three entities. Crazy.
Keep up the great posts about Facebook. Your blog is one I check daily.
GG
I use (and my associates/freinds) FaceBook a lot more than twitter. Twitter is just a strange app to me, i don’t quite get it. Its like a cross between an rss feed and a social network not doing either one to well (in my humble opinion).
Hmm.. it seems rather unprofessional, not just inaccurate, to judge a non-browser application by browser application standards. I’m glad that is mentioned (albeit briefly) in this article, but I’m a little disappointed the “stats” were given even this much coverage.
It’s like publishing my study on how ants are superior to elephants, using the greater number of ants than elephants in ant hills as my supporting data.