The latest numbers on social networks usage

Finding updated numbers of social networks users can be hard.  Here are some of the sources which might help you.

The list is inspired by the blog of web strategist Jeremiah Owyang, who has collected some of the useful reports in this regard.

For an overall view, try the Nielsen Wire. Its latest report was published in October and shows that Myspace is still in the lead, but with Facebook demostrating the strongest growth in number of users  (116 %) over the last years.

Rubicon Consulting gives more insight into who the users are in a major survey. Unfortunately the survey only includes US users.

Some more links from Owyang’s blog:

Facebook usage skyrockets from election activity:ZDNet on November 5th.

Facebook 18 Million Unique Visitors in UK, top 5th overall web property, Sep-Aug 08, Source: Comscore

Nearly 60% of LinkedIn users have high personal incomes and hold executive-level or consultant positions, Nov 10th, 2008, LinkedIn, Anderson Analytics.

LinkedIn demographics presentation from Aug, 2008

MySpace has more than 110 million monthly active users around the globe, Jan 2008

Global visitors to Twitter rose almost fivefold to 5.57 million in September from a year earlier. Nov 12, 2008, Comscore via BBC.

Locations (Cities) with the most tweets, Tokyo is the most popular city, Real TimeTwitter Local

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