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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.

When Haiti was rocked by an earthquake of historical proportions yesterday, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook suddenly became a voice for both those in and out of Haiti.  As news organizations scrambled to send correspondents to Haiti, images and videos began to be uploaded and shared via Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.    CNN, Fox News, and [...]

Every day, millions of people use Twitter to create, discover and share ideas with others. Now, people are turning to Twitter as an effective way to reach out to businesses, too. From local stores to big brands, and from brick-and-mortar to internet-based or service sector, people are finding great value in the connections they [...]

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 [...]

In a post titled “We Learned a Lot” Twitter states the following:
“This morning we received lots of great info about the replies setting we changed yesterday. Folks loved this feature because it allowed them to discover new people and participate serendipitously in various conversations. The problem with the setting was that it didn’t scale [...]

NASA astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station in June, is sharing updates about his training and flight on Twitter. He invites followers to submit video questions via YouTube that he will answer from orbit.

Polansky, a New Jersey native and former Air Force test pilot, will command the space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-127, a flight targeted for launch June 13 to deliver the final portions of the space station’s Japanese laboratory. While posting tweets about his crew’s training, Polansky also will select video questions submitted by followers. The videos will be transmitted to orbit during the mission and answered live during a special event that will be broadcast on NASA Television and posted to Polansky’s Twitter and YouTube pages.

comScore, Inc. released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at the top online properties for March 2009 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. Americans turned to the Web to plan spring and summer travel, and to manage their personal finances during the economic downturn. The month also saw the [...]

More than one in ten (11%) online adults in the US say they have used Twitter – or a similar service – to share updates about themselves or view updates about others, and those who use Twitter have a greater affinity for mobile devices, according to new research from the Pew Internet & American [...]