Compete Reports Facebook Still Number One on Top Social Networks List

Twitter's Growth Soars

Compete, a TNS Media company, today issued the rankings of the top ten personal and professional social networking sites based on April 2009 traffic.

Compete Top 10 Personal Social Networking Sites by Unique Visitors
(U.S. Unique visitors, Source: www.compete.com)

Web site - April 2009
1. facebook.com - 104,125,466
2. myspace.com - 55,559,317
3. twitter.com - 19,443,286
4. classmates.com - 17,029,516
5. reunion.com - 10,982,199
6. ning.com - 6,526,704
7. flixster.com - 4,984,063
8. bebo.com - 4,434,275
9. tagged.com - 4,342,799
10. livingsocial.com - 2,111,944

Web site - April 2008
1. myspace.com - 75,994,324
2. facebook.com - 29,775,469
3. classmates.com -13,537,330
4. reunion.com - 7,913,758
5. bebo.com - 3,133,785
6. tagged.com - 2,661,743
7. flixster.com - 2,216,083
8. ning.com - 1,671,817
9. twitter.com -1,504,747
10. livingsocial.com - 77,661

Twitter, the third largest social networking site, is certainly the media darling of this Spring. Unique Visitors to twitter.com increased to 19.4 Million in April, surpassing the New York Times for the first time. Oprah's first tweet on April 17th delivered the highest Daily Reach ever to the site, with nearly 2% of all Americans online visiting Twitter.

Twitter's growth is fueling the growth of related sites. Fast movers in April included tweetmeme.com (up 338% to 1.68 Million Unique Visitors), tweetdeck.com (up 69% to 915,000 UVs), twittergadget.com (up 56% to 100,000 UVs), twitpic.com (up 37% to 3.33 Million UVs), and bit.ly (up 53% to 1.81 Million UVs).

To read recent Compete blogs on Twitter and other social media trends visit http://blog.compete.com/topics/social-web/

Compete Top 10 Professional Social Networking Sites by Unique Visitors
(U.S. Unique visitors, Source: www.compete.com)

Web site - April 2009
1. linkedin.com - 12,119,516
2. plaxo.com - 2,654,852
3. zoominfo.com - 1,719,296
4. spoke.com - 1,440,072
5. activerain.com - 949,313
6. jigsaw.com - 610,837
7. allnurses.com - 498,356
8. naymz.com - 463,521
9. talenthunter.com - 443,780
10. glassdoor.com - 260,146

Web site - April 2008
1. linkedin.com - 5,791,420
2. plaxo.com -1,079,685
3. zoominfo.com - 2,203,643
4. activerain.com - 586,364
5. spoke.com - 548,655
6. naymz.com - 429,455
7. jigsaw.com - 287,612
8. allnurses.com - 250,708
9. talenthunter.com - 37,493
10. glassdoor.com - 6,405