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Facebook’s Continued Growth
Even though we just raved about Twitter hitting 44.5 million users worldwide, Facebook is still far superior to Twitter.
Twitter has landed in the 52nd spot for largest Website. And that’s great! Good for Twitter. But, also reported today, Facebook landed the 4th spot for largest Website worldwide! Surpassing CBS, eBay, AOL, and Wikipedia, Facebook has gained 24 million visitors worldwide in the month of June alone. Now the total number of unique visitors has reached an all time high of 340 million! However, Facebook itself reported that they have only 250 million registered members (which happens to be a great increase from only 150 million in January, 2009), but visitors don’t necessarily need a Facebook account to see most Facebook pages.
These stats make Twitter look not as impressive anymore.
Facebook is just behind Yahoo Websites by 241 million, and the leading Website, Google, by 504 million. So they still have a ways to go to get on top. In the U.S. exclusively, Facebook is in 6th for largest Website, behind Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and Fox Interactive Media sites. And it had 77 million unique visitors in June in the U.S. alone.
There has been a little concern lately that Facebook would soon be biting the dust, or suffering the MySpace crash and burn, but these numbers suggest that Facebook isn’t ready to burn out yet. There are still more people joining the social network while long-time users remain content with its features. It is the perfect medium to continue growing.
