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

by: SA Editors posted on: May 16, 2006 | about stocks: GOOG / MSFT / NWS    

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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