MySpace five times more popular than Facebook in the US

Thu May 29 2008, 17:59 PM

MySpace was the most popular social site in the US in Apr, accounting for 41.28% of all US visits to social networking sites and forums, says Hitwise. The category includes social networks, media-sharing sites, blogs and other types of communities such as discussion groups. MySpace had a five-times larger share of US visits than runner-up Facebook, which had a 8.28% market share. Google-owned YouTube ranked third accounting for 7.51% of visits, followed by Craigslist with 2.91% and Yahoo! Answers with 1.18%.