Comments on: Facebook numbers booming since Feeds launch

By: Steve Allen

Steve Allen — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:34:03 +0000

Looking at Facebook (now in November of 2007) I see that the majority of users are above college student age. I’m not convinced that there would be a significant peak during the school term.

Also, page views should not be mistaken for unique visitors, nor rss feeds.

If you visit the ‘Social Chat’ service there only seems to be around 500 people at any given time, which considering that Facebook is considered to be the most visited social networking site in the US is a very small number indeed.

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By: Karel

Karel — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:22:38 +0000

I’m a fan of feeds, and agree they increase traffic. Another component of this growth is new networks.

The numbers are not available, but I think geographic networks are exploding, at least in unsticky joining activity, since the site opened to everyone with really convenient import/invite tools. Perhaps the corporate networks are finally growing also. FB claims 40K networks, and closed networks have seen fast growth in other segments.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:32:31 +0000

Agree w/ C… it’s hard to ignore the fact that this site, catering to the college student crowd, would see a spike in traffic due to the school year starting up again.

By: junger

junger — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:34:57 +0000

While I’m not discounting the effect the feed additions had, surely the fact that students are back at school and a whole new class is signing up plays a big part.

With recent grads still online, there’s a mass of people connecting with new folks.

By: C

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:42:18 +0000

you’re not considering the fact that page views increase when classes are in session (late August, early September) versus summer months?