Social Networks Continue To Grow At A Rapid Pace

The Social Networking category continues to grow at an impressive clip.  Here is an article from MediaPost detailing specific year over year growth.

News Brief

MySpace Still Beats Facebook, Per Nielsen Online Data

Thursday, Mar 20, 2008 7:00 AM ET

DESPITE THE RISE OF FACEBOOK, MySpace.com continued to record year-over-year growth of 4% as of February when it attracted 55.4 million unique visitors, according to new Nielsen Online data. Year-over-year, Facebook’s usership grew by 102% to just over 20 million unique visitors last month. Also of note, business networking site LinkedIn grew an impressive 271% from about 2 million unique visitors in Feb. 2007 to 7.4 million unique visitors in Feb. 2008. Club Penguin, Disney’s virtual network for kids, grew 46% year-over-year, according to Nielsen–to about 4.7 million unique visitors in February. Viewership of Windows Live Spaces, meanwhile, was down 15% to about 7.9 million unique visitors in February. –Gavin O’Malley