Only two weeks ago I wrote that Facebook was dominating the internet(and Twitter) based on the latest Hitwise statistics. Two weeks later Compete is showing a similar trend with Facebook growing 3 percent domestically over the past month while Twitter drops by around 2 percent. As I mentioned last month though, direct traffic to the Twitter.com site may not be a good indicator of activity on the site.

More important to Twitter is the total number of users posting updates to the site and the total volume of tweets on a periodic basis. Even still, Facebook continues to open up their platform to make it accessible via other applications and traffic continues to boom. The growth is so significant that the latest statistics show Facebook nearing Yahoo in Google in terms of number of monthly visitors to the site.

As usual, Facebook has nothing but a bright future ahead based on the latest statistics. We’ve already projected Facebook to come close to the 375 million user mark by the end of the year and if the company can stay at this pace they should easily surpass 600 million users next year. We’ll continue to cover the company’s growth as it continues!

Tags: facebook, statistics, twitter

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