Market Share of U.S. Social Network Visits Decreases 19% Year-Over-Year

  • July 24, 2008
The market share of U.S. visits to the social networking custom category has decreased 19% year-over-year, according to new data from Hitwise.

The social networking market share has increased 7% in June, compared to May. MySpace.com received 71.92% of the market share of U.S. visits in June.

Among the top 10 social networking websites, Facebook ranked second by the market share of U.S. visits with 16.91%, followed by MyYearbook, which received 1.54%.

MyYearbook experienced the largest gain in market share in June among the top five visited websites, increasing 318% compared to June 2007. Tagged and Facebook followed, increasing 45% and 40%, respectively.--Gavin O'Malley

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