Facebook Doubled U.S. Users in 2009
Posted on 23. Jan, 2010 by Mark in Webmaster News
Facebook’s great 2009 growth through its fifth year recalls that of Google, which took off and went public after its fifth year. ComScore found that Facebook more than doubled its U.S. audience from 54.5 million visitors in December 2008 to 111.9 million visitors in December 2009. The parallels are interesting but remember that Facebook is a social network and Google is a search engine, making them somewhat apples and oranges from a user experience perspective. People go to Google to search the Web. People go to Facebook to hang out with friends and even meet new people online.
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News Analysis: Facebook more than doubled its U.S. audience from 54.5
million visitors in December 2008 to 111.9 million visitors in December 2009,
according to researcher comScore.
The success of the social network in its fifth year is the greatest for a Web company since that of …
