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The Top 20 Social Networks are shown below for week ending January 30, 2010. Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Tagged and Twitter take the top 5 spots.

The Top 20 Websites for Week Ending January 30, 2010 are shown below. Google, Facebook and Yahoo Mail take the Top 3 spots.

The following chart shows websites for the industry ‘Computers and Internet – Social Networking and Forums’, ranked by Visits for the week ending 12/26/2009.

U.S. visits to social networking sites have increased 62 percent year over year;
visits from 55 and older age group have increased 77 percent
Facebook accounted for 58.59 percent of all U.S. visits among a custom category of 155 social networking Web sites in September 2009. The 58 percent was the highest among all social networking [...]

As Myspace.com continues its strategic move toward becoming an “entertainment portal,” the growth to Myspace Music should help cement their presence in this space. Since the site’s launch in September 2008, unique visitors to the music.myspace.com subdomain have increased 190 percent — growing from 4.2 million unique visitors to 12.1 million in June 2009. [...]

As theories circulate about the actual dollar value of sites like Facebook and Myspace—just last week analysts placed Facebook’s worth at $10 billion—there is no question that people continue to gravitate towards social networking and blog sites. In the U.S. alone, total minutes spent on social networking sites has increased 83 percent year-over-year. In [...]

Top Social Media Sites (ranked by unique worldwide visitors November, 2008; comScore)
Blogger (222 million)
Facebook (200 million)
MySpace (126 million)
Wordpress (114 million)
Windows Live Spaces (87 million)
Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
Flickr (64 million)
hi5 (58 million)
Orkut (46 million)
Six Apart (46 million)
Baidu Space (40 million)
Friendster (31 million)
56.com (29 million)
Webs.com (24 million)
Bebo (24 million)
Scribd (23 million)
Lycos Tripod (23 million)
Tagged (22 million)
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