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By on October 9, 2009

Some Social Media Stats for Your Weekend

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facebook-logoIt looks like September of 2009 was a pretty good month or Facebook according to Experian’s Hitwise report about social media usage. If you are a regular reader of Marketing Pilgrim you know that we report on statistics all the time and we approach them with same amount of reverence as we do skepticism. What is seen in this report though would likely be of little shock to anyone and that is that Facebook is kicking some serious social media butt.

The press release for the report states

Experian® Hitwise® announced today that Facebook accounted for 58.59 percent of all U.S. visits among a custom category of 155 social networking Web sites in September 2009. The 58 percent was the highest among all social networking sites sites, as U.S. visits to Facebook increased 194 percent in September 2009 compared with September 2008. MySpace received the second-highest market share of U.S. visits for the month, with 30 percent.

JPG Small Social Media Use Sept 09

Some pretty lofty numbers indeed but not a surprise. I shouldn’t be any more but I still get surprised when I see MySpace coming in second. I am guilty of paying greater attention to and giving greater weight to only the social media outlets I use. Shame on me since in marketing of any kind you need to be where the market is and not where you think it should be.

Now I am really going to step out here and admit that the third place finisher ahead of Twitter is Tagged.com. As a result of this report I visited Tagged for the first time and they report 80 million users. I guess I am simply not part of the Tagged set or it’s just another indication of not playing with the cool kids on my part.

Now on to the demographics. While the use of Facebook has increased significantly with the 55 plus crowd there is an audible thud when looking at the 35-54 group.

JPG Social Media Age Sept 09

So while any numbers around social media are interesting I think we are all waiting, as marketers that is, for the conversion rates of the sites. Is the less than 2 % of traffic that Twitter garners more convertible than all the Facebookers you can round up? As we move forward with the great social media experiment it’s the ones who can answer those questions that will be given the keys to the city.


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7 comments on “Some Social Media Stats for Your Weekend”

  1. Steve Sarner Says:

    October 9th, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    Hi Frank

    Don’t worry – you’re still cool – many in the “marketing and media” world not that familiar with Tagged. Full disclosure – I am with the company.

    Our difference is social discovery – or meeting new friends online. Most social nets are designed to keep in touch with those you already know. And Tagged is often overlooked – so that proves you are indeed cool keeping an eye on the other social networks besides the big 2 and Twitter! Glad to have found your blog and look forward to future posts.

  2. Frank Reed Says:

    October 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    @Steve – I doubt I will never be confused with being cool no matter how hard I try. Just ask my kids!

    Thanks for coming by and we do look forward to hearing from you in the future!
    .-= Frank Reed´s last blog ..Businesses Not Using the Internet Properly are the New Functionally Illiterate =-.

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    October 12th, 2009 at 7:54 am

    Facebook does rock! stopped using myspace totally, after i logged on to twitter! its fast simple and effective!

  6. Durant Cricket Says:

    October 14th, 2009 at 9:42 am

    Interesting stuff, but I would have thought that Twitter would have had a bigger share.

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