Top Ten Social Networking Sites (NWS, GOOG, MSFT)

Nielson/NetRatings reports that the top 10 social networking sites collectively grew 47% since last year -- a climb from 46.8 million uniques in April 2005 to 68.8 million in April 2006. The data includes blogs -- such as Google's Blogger platform. News Corp's (NWS) MySpace tops the list, with twice the number of unique visitors of its closest rival. The top sites and their growth/decline year over year:

Top 5 Social Networking Sites ranked according to Retention Rate, April 2006 (U.S., Home Only)

See the full Nielson/NetRatings report (in .pdf) here.

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Comments

[alex delpiero:]

the market is sure to slow down a little bit later this year but its gonna pick up momemtum soon thereafter.

2006 Jun 30 06:10 AM

[chris.white:]

Social internet is a very hot market and will continue to pick up steam. There is a small social internet website that is making waves in this market. wi-fitv.com Stock Symbol (wtvi)
The stock price is pennies right now, but in the next 6 months it could skyrocket. They have a new website coming out in early August. Keep a close watch on this new up and coming company

2007 Jul 16 08:26 AM

[social network:]

I think theres is going to be a huge social networking crash

2008 Mar 12 11:10 PM

[juleia:]

Now a day’s social networking is a best place to meet new friends and make friends

2008 Mar 20 05:43 AM

[Investment ...:]

Building a company specific investors social network.

2008 May 02 01:48 PM

[Diamond Jew...:]

Right...........
Very good information

2008 Jun 27 08:55 AM

[stocksmantra:]

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2008 Jul 14 02:22 AM

[Directoy:]

What can we say abou it?
I think was time to have a strong Social ntworking midia,
what coming next? Business Social Networking ?

2008 Aug 22 04:56 PM

[iRANQ SEO S...:]

absolutely good graphs, now we are inspired to know that there are real people in the internet and not merely robots

2008 Aug 28 10:43 PM

[CellphoneSu...:]

I came here researching top social networking site. Though you have reviewed only 10 websites, I think information on next 10 website's will be more helpful. Everyone knows about top 10, but people are more interested to learn more who is breaking in top 10 this year!

Thanks for information.
Christien
www.cellphonesupersale...

2008 Nov 06 01:33 PM

[Directoy:]

Agreed Christien



On May 02 01:48 PM Investment Social Network wrote:

> Building a company specific investors social network.

2008 Nov 22 10:35 AM

[L.Howard:]

I was searching for good social networking site and i found this page.I think my search ends here.

Thanks.
www.altwebmedia.com/

2008 Dec 06 04:27 AM

[Shane Robinet:]

I have a list 11000+ social networking site but these top 10 is good.

Thanks
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Jan 17 02:34 AM

[shweta:]

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Feb 18 05:39 AM

[Facebd:]

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Mar 18 04:00 AM

[eecia11:]

Hoping this new, coolest and fastest growing Social Networking Site - HUMANHOOD will be on the next list.
C'mon guys, check it out at www.humanhood.com
And be invited to the new, social Networking Site that helps people achieve their goals. Cheers!:)

Apr 08 06:54 PM

[vincetastic:]

This is a really great top ten list, but where is Facebook??? Anyone can post their own list to our site www.toptentopten.com/. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list.

May 18 01:49 AM

[ADHD Coach:]

This report is from 2006. I've been searching for the equivalent in an updated version but have yet to find it. Has anyone else had any luck?
Thanks,
Veronica Cobb
austinADDcoach.com

Jun 03 12:52 AM

[Dods P:]

yes the list is quite old, but it still stands. If your looking for social networking sites for traders try Stocktwits or Quoqu.

Jun 11 05:08 AM

[dreamlifest...:]

Thank you for sharing your information!

Jun 18 07:12 AM

[Buzzbot:]

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Aug 09 03:45 PM

[NIFT:]

Thanks for the list, You can also add Ioch.org (Valid PR 4) social networking site that share & deliver News & enable user to publish & share their articles with other users.

Sep 09 08:31 AM

[KeithG:]

Zovue.com is a social networking website which offers free online video sharing and storage for its members. They grant you lots of space for storing videos (and photos) and the best thing is that you can set your publicity settings to allow everyone to see your videos. This gives people the ability to create, upload and store their media on Zovue.com

Sep 22 11:45 AM