According to Hitwise, Facebook passed Google becoming the #1 site in the U.S. measured by number of visits. The number of visits to Facebook also continues to grow at a strong clip, up 185% from March 2009 to March 2010.
Facebook's platform business is one of their drivers of traffic growth. The social game Farmville, for example, is built on Facebook and has experienced amazing user growth.
With Facebook offering application developers easy access to hundreds of millions of potential customers, we expect the number of Facebook apps to growth dramatically over the next few years. We also believe the types of 3rd party applications available on Facebook will move beyond games and entertainment to a wide range of application spaces.
Facebook as an application platform is a key reason we think Facebook may be taking over the web.
I wonder how Google will step up efforts to attract users for Google Buzz. So far I'm not impressed with GBuzz. Let the games begin! This story was trending on Twitter today. I covered it on my show http://bit.ly/btr1CS
Posted by: Andrew Sansone | March 16, 2010 at 01:39 PM
The only problem with Google buzz is that you're forced to have a page - you are already signed up if you have a gmail account.
Posted by: Mold damage | April 05, 2010 at 10:45 PM
was obvious that facebook was going to kick google's ass, facebook is now the most visited social networking site popular in the world, along with twitter!
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