Facebook Juggernaut Continues
The Facebook boom continues.
In December, 2009, Facebook had 112 million visitors. That’s more than double what it had the year before. 73% of all adults that use social networking sites have a Facebook account.
Twitter finished the year with 20 million users–a 9 times increase from the year before. Twitter’s growth occurred mostly from February to April when it grew from 4 million users to 17 million. 37% of adults 18-29 use Twitter as opposed to just 9% of those 50-64. Only 4% of those 65+ use Facebook. Among all adults, 19% use Twitter.
Some more interesting statistics from the Pew Study show that 80% of all US internet users visited a social networking site in 2009. Social networking now occupies 11% of the total time spent on the internet.
