Twitter :

1448% growth YOY
18.2 million unique visitors in May 2009 up from 1.2 Million the same month the year before.
Estimated 6 million users.
Time per person increased 175% YOY to 17:21 minutes in May 2009.

Facebook :

190% YOY Growth in Unique Visitors
75,444,000 Unique Visitors in May 2009

Myspace.com :

Largest social networking site – when ranked by total video streams, 116.1 million video streams.
12.2 Million unique viewers of video content at myspace.com

Youtube :

4^th most visited site, with 85.1 million visitors
Surging – 8.9 billion videos were viewed by 120.3 million US citizens in July
21 billion videos were viewed on the internet according to the new numbers

State of the Blogosphere :

ComScore Numbers-

77.7 million unique visitors in the US. Total internet audience 188.9 million

Emarketer (May 2008)

94.1 million us blog readers in 2007 (50% of internet users)

22.6 million US bloggers in 2007 (12%)

Universal McCann (March 2008)

184 million WW have started a blog, 26.4 in US

Technorati Stats :

Some of the key takeaways here for me are as follows :

While many of us may be "tweeted" out, or simply bored of the service...it seems to have finally hit its "tipping point" and is spreading virally

MySpace.com is the largest social media company on the internet today, and it is the one least used by the people I know. This having been said, I recently was referred to this myspace website by a friend (don't ask), and it made me realize the different hosting formats myspace allows for, and the relative strength this represents vis-a-vis facebook.

Facebook's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is its rigid standard format. They've been doing a good job of opening up the site to different apps, but ultimately a musician can't reach as many people and as easily as he/she could through myspace. Facebook started as a private club, and now that same "club" mentality may restrict its growth. The facebook URL's are a step to change this, but does anyone really use their URL? If so, comment away!

Last comment - the international adoption of myspace has blown away any of the other services thus far, and may continue to. Facebook isn't traditionally used in Spain, for example, where a rival and identical service called tuenti.com has surfaced. Perhaps facebook should adopt its model to be more accomodating to local markets?

Below are some interesting statistics Technorati published on the Blogosphere...

Links :

Blogging Stats

Youtube Stats

Myspace, Facebook, Twitter Stats