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Paul Gillin's Blog - Social Media and the Open Enterprise: Nielsen's top social media list shows social nets up, AOL down

Paul Gillin's Blog - Social Media and the Open Enterprise

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Nielsen's top social media list shows social nets up, AOL down

Nielsen Online has released the list of the top U.S. social networking sites and blogs for October, 2007.

MySpace may not have the buzz right now, but it's still #1 by a factor of three. Meanwhile, AOL is off across the board and the classmate sites are struggling.

Top 10 Social Networking Sites for October 2007 (U.S., Home and Work) by name, number of unique monthly visitors and year-over-year growth rate.

Myspace, 58,843, +19%
Facebook, 19,519, +125%
Classmates Online, 13,278, -2%
Windows Live Spaces, 10,261, +32%
AOL Hometown, 7,923, -15%
LinkedIn, 4,919, +189%
AOL People Connection, 4,084, -30%
Reunion.com, 4,082, -14%
Club Penguin, 3,880, +157%
Buzznet.com, 2,397, +117%

Source: Nielsen Online

Labels: socialmediaresearch, socialnetworks

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Comments:

Paul, these numbers are in thousands (add 000), right?

# posted by

JD Lasica : 3:29 AM

Yes, they are. Good catch.

# posted by

Paul Gillin : 7:22 AM

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