Over the weekend, the New York Times published a piece about an “exodus” from Facebook, and suggested that its demise may be fated “like a college clique.” Now, I have been a Facebook critic for a long time, and it was only recently that it really became more useful for sharing information with family and friends. It’s also been great for monitoring the conversations my clients are having with their customers. Before taking up the cry that Facebook and Twitter are dying, critics will want to check out a couple of charts that Fred Wilson throws out from comScore. Wilson, who is an investor in Twitter, says:
This reminds me of all the Twitter Quitter stories I’ve read. People do quit Twitter. A lot of them. But here are the July comScore numbers for Twitter. In the month of July 2009, about 52mm people worldwide visited Twitter, up 1880% over July 2008 and Twitter is the 47th most popular website in the world according to comScore.avc.com, A VC, Aug 2009
For me the bigger story here is Twitter, which has recently taken some heat for its lack of popularity with teenagers and the fact that not everyone uses it. Well, a lot of people still do, and will continue to.
