Social media is taking over the internet. Users spend many hours a day on some of the sites while others they visit less often to gain information.
The top social media site is Facebook with 133,623,529 unique visitors. The site has more than doubled their monthly visitors in the last year. February 2004 was the official launch of Facebook. The site has more than 600,000,000 active users.
Running a distant second is MySpace with 50,615,444 unique visitors. They recently purchased Imeem another social media site. MySpace was launched in August 2003. The site has more than 43,000,000 active users.
Running even further behind is Twitter with 23,573,178 unique visitors. Twitter was launched in July 2006.Twitter has more than 190,000,000 users according to the company. Those users generate over 65 million tweets a day.
In fourth place is Linkedin with 15,475,890 unique visitors. Linkedin was launched in May 2003. The company filed to go public in January 2011. The company claims to have over 21.4 unique US visitors and 47.6 million globally.
The last of the top 5 is Classmates with 14,613,381 unique visitors. Classmates was launched in 1995. The company is currently undergoing a major remake turning its focus on nostalgia.
Each of the top five social media sites have a unique focus. continue reading…