The media may be all a-twitter with Twitter these days, but Facebook remains atop the heap of social networking sites, according to new research from Nielsen.
The ratings service says people spend a lot more time on Facebook than other social networking sites, but that gap is shrinking.
Here are the numbers for April:
- Facebook users: 13.9 billion minutes
- MySpace users: 5 billion minutes on MySpace
- Twitter users: 300 million (of course, the character limit might reduce the amount of time per session)
- LinkedIn users: 202.4 million minutes
Facebook users spent a whopping 700 percent more time in April of this year than they did in 2008. MySpace dropped 31 percent, but LinkedIn grew by nearly 70 percent. MySpace actually held the lead one year ago, but Facebook’s meteoric rise has left it in the dust.
So the question now is whether Twitter can make a run and top Facebook. Despite coming in third last month, the amount of time spent on the micro-blogging site is up more than 3,700 percent in one year. It still has a long way to go, but if it keeps up that pace, it won’t take long.
