The microblogging service officially ranked third in the social network rankings, bypassing MySpace (see
comScore statistics for August 2010.
In August, Twitter's global audience reached 96 million, an increase of 76% from last year. At the same time, MySpace’s audience dropped 17% to 95 million.
Twitter and MySpace are the real antipodes: the ascetic microblogging and multi-megabyte homepages with background music and hundreds of photos on the page.
Twitter and MySpace are far behind the largest social networking site Facebook with an audience of 598 million people. Windows Live Profile comes in second place with 140 million. This service is integrated into various Microsoft online services, the audience is growing by about 10% per year.
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The social network Google Orkut maintains a stable audience of 55 million people, mainly in India and Brazil.
Returning to MySpace and Twitter: although they now have about the same audience, everyone understands the trajectory of these services. The situation is similar in Runet with Livejournal and Facebook: although SUP Fabrik marketers speak with pride about the size of the audience, they cannot change the trajectory of the movement. Recently, SUP Fabrik's Business Development Director
announced that they will not rewrite the LJ code created more than ten years ago.