Earlier this month, we looked at some numbers from Web tracking firm Compete, showing the current growth (or lack thereof) at many of the companies we cover. Today, some interesting new stats come our way from Nielsen Online, telling a similar story as Compete, but with a few interesting additions to the story. Similar to Compete, Nielsen shows huge growth for Twitter and Facebook. According to the firm, Twitter grew a massive 1,928 percent in the US from June ’08 to June ’09, now reaching a total of 21 million monthly unique visitors. Facebook, which Nielsen recently reported sucks up more time than any other website, leads all social networking sites with 87.3 million unique visitors in June. MySpace – which HitWise says is losing its grip on music and entertainment – actually showed strong growth at MySpace Music , from 4.2 million to 12.1 million unique visitors year-over-year. According to Nielsen, that makes MySpace Music the third

most popular music site on the Web, behind AOL and Yahoo. A few other interesting stats: - MySpace leads all social media sites (presumably excluding YouTube) in unique video viewers, with 12.9 million. - Facebook is quickly growing its video reach – from 2.4 million unique viewers in June ’08 to 12 million in June ’09. - Twitter users spent an average of 31 minutes, 17 seconds on the site in June. This excludes users of clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop. In all, it’s mostly the same story: Facebook and Twitter are both growing extremely fast, while MySpace seems to remain relevant – at least in entertainment and music. Image courtesy of iStockphoto , Dalaj ; DNY59 Reviews: Facebook , MySpace , Seesmic Desktop , TweetDeck , Twitter , YouTube , iStockphoto Tags: facebook , social media , twitter

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Twitter’s 1,928 Percent Growth and Other Notable Social Media Stats