Facebook U.S. Visits Increase 194% Over Past Year; Tagged is Beating Twitter?
New data released from Experian Hitwise reconfirms what we’ve known for 
some time: Facebook is killing the other social networks. Nowhere is that more true than here in the U.S. where they found that the visits to the site have increased 194% from September of last year to September 2009. However, it’s Twitter that’s seen the largest year-over-year increase in visits – during that same time period, they’re up 1170%. But one of the oddest findings being reported is how the social network known as Tagged is beating out Twitter for the number three spot in terms of visits.
MySpace Declines, Facebook and Twitter Grow
According to Experian, nearly 59% of all the social networking visits were visits to Facebook while only 30% were to MySpace – a 55% decrease in market share over the past year in terms of visits for the one-time king of social networks.
Looking at just the year-over-year percent change may give you the impression that Twitter’s popularity is through the roof. After all, they posted an increase of over 1000 percentage points. But the truth is, their percentage of visits still remains relatively
What? Tagged Beats Twitter?
Facebook and MySpace beat Twitter out for the top two spots, but you may be surprised to see who came in at #3: Tagged. Yes, Tagged, the social networking site that’s best known for getting busted in an email invite scam is beating out Twitter.
Although we like to think that spammy marketing tactics don’t pay off, it seems that for Tagged they have. Their aggressive methods in the past involved having new registrants add their contact lists to the service which Tagged then used to send out “invites” to everyone in the user’s address book. The worst part is that the invites looked as if they came from the individual users when really, most were completely unaware anything had been sent out. Tagged has also been known to send out emails that force users to sign up for accounts in order to see shared photos from other users, even going so far as to guilt-trip recipients into signing up with messages that read: “If you don’t click, [the person] may think you said no 
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source: readwriteweb
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