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Search Engine Land » Channel » Content » Buoyed By Facebook, Social Media Sites Hit All-Time Traffic Highs In May

Buoyed By Facebook, Social Media Sites Hit All-Time Traffic Highs In May

While Facebook gets the lion’s share of attention, the overall adoption of social media is also lifting several sites to all-time traffic levels and there’s no sign that this will change anytime soon. According to a new comScore report, LinkedIn, Twitter and Tumblr — in addition to Facebook — all hit new highs for U.S. […]

Matt McGee on June 15, 2011 at 2:49 pm

While Facebook gets the lion’s share of attention, the overall adoption of social media is also lifting several sites to all-time traffic levels and there’s no sign that this will change anytime soon.

According to a new comScore report, LinkedIn, Twitter and Tumblr — in addition to Facebook — all hit new highs for U.S. audience size during May.

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The details:

  • LinkedIn.com: 33.4 million visitors, 58% growth in the past year
  • Twitter.com: 27 million visitors, 13% growth in the past year
  • Tumblr.com: 10.7 million visitors, 166% growth in the past year

Not shown on the chart above is Facebook, which hit an all-time high of 157.2 million visitors in May — up 3.2 million visitors from April. ComScore says Facebook is the fourth largest U.S. web property.

Also not shown is MySpace — still the number two social networking site with 34.9 million visitors in May, but that’s trending down. ComScore says the site’s “audience has declined by nearly 50% in the past year while average user engagement has dropped 85%.”

Social Media Usage Continues To Rise

The bigger picture is that social media as a whole continues to grow as part of Americans’ daily lives online. This comScore chart shows continued growth in how much of our online time involves social networking.

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According to comScore’s numbers, social networking now represents about one of every six minutes spent online in the U.S.; in 2007, it was about one of every 12 minutes.


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here.


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Matt McGee joined Third Door Media as a writer/reporter/editor in September 2008. He served as Editor-In-Chief from January 2013 until his departure in July 2017. He can be found on Twitter at @MattMcGee.

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