According to Hitwise, these are the current top social networking sites. They also found that total traffic to social networking sites was up 11.5% from the previous month. I’d say that’s some positive growth!
| Rank | Name | Domain | Market Share |
| 1 | MySpace | www.myspace.com |
80.74% |
| 2 | www.facebook.com |
10.32% | |
| 3 | Bebo | www.bebo.com |
1.18% |
| 4 | BlackPlanet.com | www.blackplanet.com |
0.88% |
| 5 | Xanga | www.xanga.com |
0.87% |
| 6 | iMeem | www.imeem.com |
0.73% |
| 7 | Yahoo! 360 | 360.yahoo.com |
0.72% |
| 8 | Classmates | www.classmates.com |
0.72% |
| 9 | hi5 | www.hi5.com |
0.69% |
| 10 | Tagged | www.tagged.com |
0.67% |
| 11 | LiveJournal | www.livejournal.com |
0.49% |
| 12 | Gaiaonline.com | www.gaiaonline.com |
0.48% |
| 13 | Friendster | www.friendster.com |
0.34% |
| 14 | Orkut | www.orkut.com |
0.26% |
| 15 | Live Spaces | spaces.live.com |
0.18% |
| 16 | HoverSpot | www.hoverspot.com |
0.18% |
| 17 | Buzznet | www.buzznet.com |
0.18% |
| 18 | Sconex | www.sconex.com |
0.14% |
| 19 | MiGente.com | www.migente.com |
0.11% |
| 20 | myYearbook | www.myyearbook.com |
0.11% |
I found it interesting that they don’t consider YouTube a social network, because that would certainly be on the list.