著名市場分析機構ComScore，最新出爐了2008年（不包含12月份數據統計）全球社會媒體網站Top20名單。Facebook作為世界第一大社會化網絡，依然呈現著明顯的增長態勢；MySpace緊隨其后。日志類的Blogger固然實力熏天；Wordpress,Windows Live Spaces卻已顯示出鼎足之勢。
分享類的Flickr毫無懸念摘得桂冠；但是ComScore的分類研究方法還是另人意外：有中國的視頻分享網站56.com卻沒有YouTube。中國的社會媒體網站，此次有兩名入選：百度空間和我樂網。
Top Social Media Sites (ranked by unique worldwide visitors November, 2008; comScore)
1. Blogger (222 million)
網址：http://www.blogger.com/
2. Facebook (200 million)
http://www.facebook.com/
3. MySpace (126 million)
http://www.myspace.com/
4. Wordpress (114 million)
http://wordpress.org/
5. Windows Live Spaces (87 million)
http://home.spaces.live.com/
6. Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
http://geocities.yahoo.com/
7. Flickr (64 million)
http://www.flickr.com/
8. hi5 (58 million)
http://hi5.com/
9. Orkut (46 million)
http://www.orkut.com/
10. Six Apart (46 million)
http://www.sixapart.com/
11. Baidu Space (40 million)
http://hi.baidu.com/
12. Friendster (31 million)
http://www.friendster.com/
13. 56.com (29 million)
http://www.56.com/
14. Webs.com (24 million)
http://www.webs.com/
15. Bebo (24 million)
http://www.bebo.com/
16. Scribd (23 million)
http://www.scribd.com/
17. Lycos Tripod (23 million)
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
18. Tagged (22 million)
http://www.tagged.com/
19. imeem (22 million)
http://www.imeem.com/
20. Netlog (21 million)
http://www.netlog.com/
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What were the top social media sites of 2008? ComScore came out with its worldwide traffic stats for November a few days ago (so these don’t include December). They are a mix of social networks and blogging platforms. Blogger, the orange line in the chart above, still rules the roost with an estimated 222 million unique worldwide visitors in November (up 44 percent from November, 2007). Facebook, the blue line, is on pace to pass it soon with 200 million unique visitors (up 116 percent). (Note, though, that this is more than the 140 million active users Facebook itself reports—go figure). MySpace is pretty steady at 126 million uniques. Wordpress is a close fourth and gaining with 114 million (up 68 percent). And Windows Live Spaces is down 22 percent to 87 million uniques.
ComScore keeps a list of what it calls “social networking” sites, but these include blogging platforms and other social media sites as well. While the audience for blogs is still showing healthy growth overall, Facebook stands out as the social gorilla taking share from not only other social networks but blogs and other social media as well.
Below are the top 20 sites on comScore’s social networking list. It is really more of a social media site list, which is what I’m renaming it for this post. It is not definitive, but it gives a good lay of the land. (Here is a similar ranking from 2007).. Note on this list the stubborn persistence of Yahoo’s Geocities at No. 6, the rise of Yahoo’s Flickr at No. 7, Six Apart at No. 10, and the presences of Chinese sites like Baidu Space and 56.com. The real surprise, though, is document-sharing site Scribd at No. 16, with nearly 24 million worldwide uniques.
