David Jackson's Internet Stock Blog reports that according to Nielson/NetRatings 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--but News Corp?s (NWS) MySpace tops the list.
Susan sez: Did you realize MySpace is close behind Yahoo in page views? Zowie.
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They're close to Yahoo in part because they do a lot of crafty things to inflate the number of views they have. See: http://techdirt.com/articles/20060424/0749243.shtml