Facebook Catches MySpace In Social-Network Race

Facebook's years of hard work and dedication has finally paid off as it has finally caught up to MySpace in regards to unique monthly traffic, according to reports.

Facebook hit the mark in April 2008 by posting 115 million unique monthly visitors. Myspace has maintained similar traffic numbers for the past year, but Facebook has grown from less than 40,000 unique monthly visitors in April 2007 to the 115 million that it is today.

Before the Facebook team starts popping the champagne, there's some other figures to analyze. The reason for Facebook's ability to catch up to MySpace is mostly due to the international market. In the United States, Facebook's growth is not as substantial with 36 million unique months viewers compared to Myspace's 72 million.

One step MySpace is taking to get a firmer grasp on the social-networking market is with a complete Web site redesign. MySpace's clunky, cluttered and messy interface is always a jabbing point, so this major upgrade that will affect the homepage, navigation, profile editor, search and MySpace TV pages could help the social-networking giant grow and, more importantly, retain members.

Comments

Facebook would have more members if they did not kick off home schoolers. I was kicked of because I am home schooled, because I could not join a high school network and when I sent them a e-mail about it the e-mail I got back said we have disabled your account because we do not take home schoolers at this time, and I'm not the only one is has happened to google it and see for your self.

JBL3115

June 13, 2008

9:59 AM PT

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