• March 16, 2009

U.S. visits to Facebook increased 149% in February 2009 compared with February 2008. The site received the second-highest market share of U.S. visits for the month, with 36.03%, according to Hitwise, an Experian company.

U.S. visits to social networking Web sites increased 4% in February 2009 versus February 2008 among a custom category of 55 of the leading sites. Visits decreased 1% compared with January 2009 among those sites. MySpace accounted for 52.21% of those visits, the highest in the category, despite a decrease in visits of 28% compared with February 2008.

Tagged received 2.47% of visits in February 2009, the third-largest amount, and had the largest percentage gain in market share of visits among the top five visited Web sites, increasing 280% compared with February 2008.--Tanya Irwin