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Is your company and its brand in front of the millions of people who visit social networking sites? If not, these statistics might help sway you to become a part of the social media phenomenon.

 

• Facebook grew from 100 million to 200 million users in less than eight months.

• MySpace has a total of 54.1 million unique visitors, compared to Facebook’s 65.7 million visitors.

• From June 2008 to June 2009, Twitter grew an astounding 1,928 %.

• In June 2008, Twitter had one million unique visitors. In 2009, that figure skyrocketed to 21 million unique visitors!

 

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SOURCE: The Web in Numbers: The Rise of Social Media. http://mashable.com/2009/04/17/web-in-numbers-social-media/, April 17, 2009; Nielsen NetView, June 2009.