With all the chatter over the past weeks about the decline and fall of the economy, and how it will affect emerging web20/Social Media technologies, I did a quick check on Alexa to see how the top ten social media sites are faring.  I was a little surprised that some of the “hot” tools like twitter, digg, delicious etc. were not there, but, here they are non the less.  I did try to stick to social/new media sites and did leave out the big boys (google, yahoo, live, etc) because their global top 5 rankings remains unchallenged.  I wil try to put together a larger list of social media sites and their rankings shortly.

 

#1. Youtube – The holder of the #3 spot globally and #4 ranking in the US.  Youtube has seen a 6% drop in reach over the past 3 months while seeing their page views increase slightly by 2%.  It is estimated that approximately 489,059 sites link to youtube.co

 

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#2. Facebook – Facebook currently holds the #5 spot globally as well as in the US.  Face book clearly is still gaining traction and has a 17% in growth in reach over the last three months while seeing slowdown in pageviews(down 7%) Facebook has about 155,220 sites that link to it.

 

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#3 MySpace – Myspace is ranked #7 globally and #3 within the US.  Myspace has seen an 11% decline in reach over the past 3 months as well as a decline in pageviews of 9%.  Myspace currently has about 335,770 sites linking to it.

 

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#4. Wikipedia.org – Wikipedia is currently ranked #8 globally as well as #8 in the US.  Wikipedia has seen a 12% decline over the past 3 months as well as a decline in pageviews at about 7%.  Wikipedia has 364,081 sites linking to it.

 

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#5. Blogger.com – blooger is a google property and has a global ranking of #9 and a US ranking of #12.  They have seen a 10% decrease in reach over the past 3 months with an increase in pageviews of 3%

 

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#6. Hi5.com – Hi5 is based out of San Francisco and has a global ranking of #16 and a US ranking of #70.  The interesting thing to note here is although they are a US based company their top ranking comes from  Indonesia at #2.  Hi5 has seen a 4% drop in global reach and a 8% drop in pageviews.

 

 

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#7. Wordpress.com – Wordpress has a global ranking of #28 and a US ranking of #23.  Wordpress has seen an increase in reach of 1% and an increase in pageviews of 3%.  There are 135,535 sites that link to wordpress.com.

 

 

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#8. Flickr.com – Canadian based flickr.com ranks #31 globally and #19 in the US.  Reach has remained unchanged over the past 3 months, while pageviews decreased 5%.  Flickr has seen a ranking increase of +5 over the past 3 months. Flickr has 236,171 sites that link to it.

 

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#9. Craigslist.org - craigslist has a global ranking of #38 and a US ranking of #11.  92% of their traffic is from the US.  Craigslist has seen a 3% drop in reach and an increase of 2% in pageviews and increase of +2 in rankings.  There are 9,587 links to craigslist.

 

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#10. Friendster.com – Friendster has a global rank of #39 and a US rank of #151.  Here is another site that is based in the US but has the largest audience from Indonesia(38%) vs a US audience of 7.1%  Friendster has seen a decrease in reach of 9%, a decrease in page rank -1, and an increase in pageviews of 5%.