235306 Resource 187691 21 21 1245850647610 1245851096531 Controlled Nielsen's Social Media QuickTake: May 2009

Twitter usage soars while new user growth stalls; Facebook remains the largest; MySpace delivers most video.

<p>Consumer and market analysis giant <a title="The Nielsen Company" href="http://www.nielsen.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nielsen</a> released a summary report on the state of the social media landscape as of last month.</p> <p><a href="http://faseidl.com/docs/nielsen-twitter-uage-2009-05_2.jpg"><img title="Twitter.com Time per Person Growth" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; border-right-width: 0px" height="129" alt="Twitter.com Time per Person Growth" src="http://faseidl.com/docs/nielsen-twitter-uage-2009-05_thumb.jpg" width="240" align="right" border="0"></a>Highlights:</p> <ul> <li>People are spending more time on social media and blog sites than ever before. <li>Twitter.com was the fastest growing web brand but growth has begun to slow. <li>Average time spent on Twitter is up nearly 300% in the past 12 months. <li>Facebook remains the largest social media destination. <li>Myspace.com remains the top social media video stream provider.</li></ul> <p><u><a title="Download Nielsen's May 2009 report on social networks" href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/nielsen_pr_090619.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Download Nielsen's May 2009 report on social networks (PDF)</a></u></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> 10 application/xml false social media Twitter Facebook blogging MySmartChannels/6 (mailto:info@myst-technology.com; MyST Blogsite MetaWeblog API 6.00.0110) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 205.145.142.200 false true false false true 188081 false false true false false false true 187691 blog blogsite/FASeidl/web