Year 2008 saw the emerging domination of social media on the internet like never before.
Sites like facebook and blogger retained the top lead while msn live shows a down trend.
The Top 5 as as expected, Blogger is not much ahead of facebook while myspace is catching up in the visitor counts.
Top Social Media Sites (ranked by unique worldwide visitors November, 2008; comScore)
- Blogger (222 million)
- Facebook (200 million)
- MySpace (126 million)
- WordPress (114 million)
- Windows Live Spaces (87 million)
- Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
- Flickr (64 million)
- hi5 (58 million)
- Orkut (46 million)
- Six Apart (46 million)
- Baidu Space (40 million)
- Friendster (31 million)
- 56.com (29 million)
- Webs.com (24 million)
- Bebo (24 million)
- Scribd (23 million)
- Lycos Tripod (23 million)
- Tagged (22 million)
- imeem (22 million)
- Netlog (21 million)
Source ( TechCrunch)
Here is a graphic representation of the fierce competition between the web2.0 and more doing websites on the internet.
The essential tool for todays media advertising and brand building is Social Media Communities and sites without any doubt. The SEO’s (Search Engine Optimizers) and SEM’s (Search Marketers) who ignore this major and “less cost” promotion opportunity, are not using the internet to the fullest.
