Top 20 Social Media Sites in 2008

Following on from yesterday's post on the rise of social media, another piece of research just released shows which sites have been visited the most. Comscore has released a list revealing the top Social Networks and Social Media sites in 2008. The graph above shows the total unique visitors for the top 5 sites from September 2007 to November 2008 (click to enlarge).

Although the list doesn't include figures from December, it does list the Total Unique Visitors as of November 2008:

1. Blogger - 221,503,000
2. Facebook - 200,189,000
3. MySpace - 126,168,000
4. Wordpress - 113,661,000
5. Windows Live Spaces - 86,760,000
6. Yahoo! Geocities - 69,159,000
7. Flickr - 63,866,000
8. Hi5 - 58,069,000
9. Orkut - 46,446,000
10. Six Apart Sites - 45,606,000
11. Baidu Space - 40,276,000
12. Friendster - 31,325,000
13. 56.com - 29,171,000
14. Webs.com - 24,230,000
15. Bebo - 24,149,000
16. Scribd - 23,524,000
17. Lycos Tripod - 23,350,000
18. Tagged.com - 22,300,000
19. Imeem - 21,889,000
20. Netlog.com - 21,1777,000

Blogger, Google's blogging platform, comes out on top. But Facebook is rising quickly and if the numbers continue will take the top spot and further stretch its lead over its closest social network competitor, Myspace, which comes in at third place.

Wordpress, a blogging platform that takes a more professional take then Blogger's 'push-button-and-publish' approach, comes in at a close fourth, demonstrating its rising popularity among bloggers.

Scribd, a social network for the sharing and discovery of documents, continues to grow and is likely to become more popular in 2009 as it becomes the premier destination for document sharing.

It's also interesting to note some of the lesser known sites - lesser known in the UK, anyway. For example, 56.com, one of the largest video sharing websites in China, and Baidu, the leading Chinese search engine, each have strong userbases which are only set to rise further as more of China comes online.

Surely it's only a matter of time before Twitter enters the Top 20? What sites do you predict to be in the Top 20 next year?