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LinkedIn Surpasses Myspace For U.S. Visitors To Become No. 2 Social Network

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38 pointsjmjerlecki16 comments

I'm still amazed Myspace gets that much traffic. I have no idea why anyone visits that site. Are their music offerings enough to keep driving traffic?

Wow, I just accessed the site to check for myself and in two featured bands, Morcheeba and Death Cab for Cutie, the latest comments from fans are, respectively, from 4 and 2 months ago. Surprisingly the layout is actually pretty good now.

Also, one of the link's URL is wrong. Probably just here in Brazil, but it is: "whttp" instead of just "http"

A more accurate headline is: Myspace drops below LinkedIn.

The trendline appears to show both. LinkedIn has been growing and MySpace has been falling.

That LinkedIn is growing faster than Twitter is what surprises me.

Is that just pure user numbers, or percentage increase over a period of time?. Considering LinkedIn has a few years head start over Twitter I wouldn't be surprised at the user count. But if we are talking current growth, that is kind of shocking really.

It's measuring unique visitors to the domain.

What's more interesting to me about this graph is that for all the supposed dominance of Twitter, it's actually still less influential than MySpace if this graph is accurate.

The full title includes twitter, but I think its pretty misleading as I highly doubt that graph includes desktop or mobile application usage.

The last time I twatted from the twitter.com interface was never. I think you need to multiply Twitter traffic by at least 3-4 times. At least.

Really surprised that LinkedIn has surpassed Twitter.

I think, the stat accounts only web based access

Wait, seriously, who uses Myspace?

Wait, seriously, who uses LinkedIn?

Define 'use' I guess.

Most professionals I know have a LinkedIn profile. In terms of active usage however, I'm not entirely sure that many visit the site regularly themselves.

Recruiters and people from other organizations are probably more liable to view profiles than the users themselves. Is this a bad thing or any different from a rolodex or business card?

Social network is a broad term. I don't think the demographics of myspace and linkedin are related, in the sense that users dont jump from one to the other, so the title is misleading.

Anyone else not fully convinced by Comscore's numbers or traffic data from any other site like Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, etc?

These are estimates until they actually have tracking pixels on the sites they measure.

I do think LinkedIn is making considersable progress and would like to see sites like Monster and CareerBuilder (relics of the dot com era) put to rest.

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