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MySpace.com again tops the rankings of top U.S. social-networking sites, with more than 58.8 million unique visitors in October, according to custom lists of top U.S. social-networking sites and blogs compiled by Nielsen Online, reports MarketingCharts. Google’s Blogger remains atop blog site rankings with 34.1 million visitors.
Ranked second among social-networking sites, Facebook increased the number of visitors to 19.5 million, up 125 percent vs. Oct. 2006. MySpace visitors increased 19 percent year over year. (See table of top 10 social-networking sites for Oct.)
The top 2 social networks’ number of visitors increased from September, whereas those ranked 3rd through 4th decreased visitor numbers slightly from the previous month. (Compare with Sept. social-network data.)
Among blog sites, top-ranked Blogger increased its visitors a significant 58 percent from the year-earlier period, reaching 34.1 million visitors. (See table of top 10 blog sites for Oct.)
More impressively, however, WordPress moved up the rankings to the No. 2 spot - having grown a whopping 444 percent compared with the year-earlier period. It accounted for 11.4 million visitors, up from 2.1 million last year.
Six Apart Type Pad, dropping to No. 3, also grew - 20 percent - to nearly 10.6 million visitors in October.
(See this table to make month-to-month [Sept. ‘07 vs. Oct. ‘07] comparisons for blog sites.)
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