Social network and 'newcomers' are respectable

A report from smart service Hitwise shows that the number of visits to social networking sites in the US increased by 11.5% from January to February 2007.

This data is based on the top 20 online community rankings through the number of traffic received by these sites.

Although MySpace is still firmly in the No. 1 position with a market share of 80%, other sites with the largest traffic are those who have just stepped into this field such as Buzznet and iMeem. Between January and February, Buzznet, with its strength in music and converging in groups, has a 148% increase in traffic, while iMeem is also not as good as 145.7%.

Other rapidly developing sites include Hoverspot with a 19.6% increase in flow and Bebo of 17.8%.

The market leader, MySpace, has an impressive growth of 10.2%, second place for Facebook with 9.1% between January and February.

Lee Ann Prescott, director of research at Hitwise, said: 'While MySpace is still a dominant social networking website in the coming time, sites like Buzznet and iMeem have been very successful in building communities in the field. music and other media. These types of social networks will continue to evolve with extremely unique responses'.

Visiting social networking sites accounts for 6.5% of total web surfing in February 2007.

Anh Thu