Social Networks: Facebook Takes Over Top Spot, Twitter Climbs to #3 from #22

Written by Andy Kazeniac (contact - e-mail) -- February 9th, 2009 | Share - Save - E-mail

With Facebook officially turning five years old recently, combined with the site surging past MySpace in Monthly Unique Visitors, it seems like a good time to take a little deeper look at the social networking giants.
It’s hard to believe that last year around this time we discussing the effects of bad PR for Facebook and if the site had ‘jumped the shark,’ but those arguments now seem to more appropriately apply to other properties.
A year ago, we ranked the top 25 social networking sites by monthly visits, and I was curious to see how the positions would change if we re-ranked those same sites with the most recent figures.....

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