Top 20 Social Networking Sites of 2008

What were the top social media sites of 2008?

According to ComScore, reported by Techcrunch, Blogger is number one with an estimated 222 million unique worldwide visitors (up 44 percent). Facebook is on target to pass it soon with 200 million visitors (up 116 percent). MySpace is steady at 126 million visitors. Wordpress is a close fourth and gaining with 114 million (up 68 percent). And Windows Live Spaces is down 22 percent to 87 million visitors.

Writes Techcrunch: “While the audience for blogs is still showing healthy growth overall, Facebook stands out as the social gorilla taking share from not only other social networks but blogs and other social media as well.”

Below are the top 20 sites on ComScore’s social networking list.
1. Blogger (222 million)
2. Facebook (200 million)
3. MySpace (126 million)
4. Wordpress (114 million)
5. Windows Live Spaces (87 million)
6. Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
7. Flickr (64 million)
8. hi5 (58 million)
9. Orkut (46 million)
10. Six Apart (46 million)
11. Baidu Space (40 million)
12. Friendster (31 million)
13. 56.com (29 million)
14. Webs.com (24 million)
15. Bebo (24 million)
16. Scribd (23 million)
17. Lycos Tripod (23 million)
18. Tagged (22 million)
19. imeem (22 million)
20. Netlog (21 million)