Facebook now twice as big as MySpace

Caroline McCarthy from CNET’s TheSocial blog writes about ComScore’s recent statistics, showing that the world-famous social networking site has nearly double the amount of traffic than MySpace.

(From TheSocial): “The blogosphere’s love affair with Facebook-MySpace traffic wars just won’t stop.

On Thursday, TechCrunch posted new statistics from ComScore that show Facebook now pulling in nearly twice as many unique visitors worldwide as its News Corp.-owned competitor.

About 222 million people visited Facebook worldwide in December (keep in mind that the social network pegs its active user count somewhere just north of 150 million these days) versus 125 million people for MySpace.”

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