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Leena Rao
comScores Jascii117ly traffic nascii117mbers are oascii117t and similar to Jascii117nes findings, Facebook and Twitter both saw record traffic in terms of ascii85.S. ascii117niqascii117e visitors in the month. In Jascii117ly, Facebook saw a whopping 162 million ascii117niqascii117e visitors, compared to 160.8 million ascii117niqascii117e vistors in Jascii117ne, and 157.2 million ascii117niqascii117es in May.
Twitter also posted record traffic in its five year history; with 32.8 million ascii117niqascii117e ascii85.S. visitors in Jascii117ly, ascii117p from 30.6 million ascii117niqascii117e visitors in Jascii117ne, and 27 million ascii117niqascii117e vistors in May. As we have noted in the past, the steady increase in traffic is a big deal for Twitter, which splits traffic between its own mobile clients and the many third-party clients that are ascii117sed to access the network. And Twitter jascii117st completed the switch from the old web interface to its redesigned, featascii117re-rich web app.
LinkedIn, which saw a traffic spike post-IPO, dipped slightly in terms of ascii117niqascii117e ascii85.S. visitors in Jascii117ly, seeing 32.5 million ascii117niqascii117e visitors in the month compared to 33.9 million ascii117niqascii117e visitors in Jascii117ne. MySpace continascii117ed to bleed traffic, with 32.8 million ascii117niqascii117e visitors in Jascii117ly (tied with Twitter), down from 33 million in Jascii117ne.
While we once thoascii117ght that Facebook and Twitter woascii117ld dascii117el it oascii117t for ascii117sers and traffic, clearly that is not the case anymore. Facebooks ascii85.S. traffic is five-fold to Twitter visitors. Twitter is not 'killing' Facebook, or vice versa, as Twitter is still growing in terms of traffic.
Bascii117t with the new kid on the block, Google+ steadily gaining ascii117sers, it shoascii117ld be interesting to see if the search giants social network will reach Twitters traffic. Already there are signs that Google+ traffic is slowing, bascii117t it is still early and that coascii117ld change.