Facebook and Myspace in raw numbers.

I love data. I love the percentages, numbers and stats. Great post from one of my smart friends Jeremiah Owyang who works in the normal world. These numbers are staggering and scream for more political attentioin than we probably give them. Dive in and enjoy!

Facebook
General Growth
* More than 60 million active users
* An average of 250,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2007
* An average of 3% weekly growth since Jan. 2007
* Active users doubling every 6 months
User Demographics
* Over 55,000 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks
* More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
* The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older
* Maintain 85 percent market share of 4-year U.S. universities

MySpace
Metrics
· MySpace has more than 110 million monthly active users around the globe
· We are the country’s trafficked site on the Internet
· 85% of MySpace users are of voting age (18 or older)
· 1 in 4 Americans is on MySpace, in the UK it’s as common to have a MySpace as it is to own a dog
·On average 300,000 new people sign up to MySpace every day,this month we broke a record and had 4.5 billion page views to the site in one day.

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