The sites known as of social networks have truly the wind in poop, tendency underlined by a recent study published by the cabinet comScore. In spite of an increasingly broad offer, the popularity of the one of the MySpace precursors does not weaken.
In June 2007, MySpace thus recorded the frequentation of more than 114,1 million single visitors throughout the world, old of at least 15 years. With 52,2 million, its prosecutor nearest is Facebook, credited with a strong growth of +270% in the one year space against +72% with Myspace. Further behind, we find Hi5 (28,2 million, +56%), Friendster (24,7 million, +65%), Orkut (24,1 million, +78%), Bebo (18,2 million, +172%) and finally Tagged (13,2 million, +774%).
For Bob Ivins de ComScore: “During last year, the social networks truly took their take-off. Hundreds of million Net surfers throughout the world visit the social netsites each month, a daily frequency for much of between-them. It appears obvious that it is not an effect of mode but an activity which is integrated in manners of the use of Internet. ”
Leaves the visitors according to the geographical localization
The passion for these sites is however not of the same order according to the geographical localization. The colouring of the community of MySpace and Facebook is thus with strong North-American connotation (more than 60% of the audience),
