著名市场分析机构ComScore，最新出炉了2008年（不包含12月份数据统计）全球社会媒体网站Top20名单。Facebook作为世界第一大社会化网络，依然呈现着明显的增长态势；MySpace紧随其后。日志类的Blogger固然实力熏天；Wordpress,Windows Live Spaces却已显示出鼎足之势。
分享类的Flickr毫无悬念摘得桂冠；但是ComScore的分类研究方法还是另人意外：有中国的视频分享网站56.com却没有YouTube。中国的社会媒体网站，此次有两名入选：百度空间和我乐网。
Top Social Media Sites (ranked by unique worldwide visitors November, 2008; comScore)
1. Blogger (222 million)
网址：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.
