There’s major news coming from sister site AllFacebook Stats, which today announced that they have a new name: quintly. They’ll still provide quality statistical analysis, but they want the name to reflect that they also provide services for Twitter (and YouTube to soon come). Don’t worry, we’re not changing our name.
Lisa Raphael (left), the social media producer at Katie Couric's daytime talk show Katie, is one of our featured speakers in Mediabistro's upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online event and workshop starting June 6, 2013. Lisa will share a case study on how the hit show uses Twitter to build interest and buzz around upcoming segments. Learn more about our our twelve event speakers and register here. 
Managing a social media campaign (Facebook page, Twitter account, YouTube channel, etc.) can be exhausting and expensive. Viralheat is hoping to ease that stress. The company announced Tuesday that it has launched a free service for Facebook page administrators to both track key statistics about their fans, as well as manage their accounts.
While RockYou and Slide have been battling for the top developer spot with their Facebook applications, the recent changes made to Facebook’s design have caused an uproar in terms of applications’ status, distribution and permeation.
As Nick noted earlier this month, both RockYou and Slide began to recover from the drop in traffic the Facebook redesign had on their respective applications, and are back to battling it out for the top spot yet again. Nearly two weeks ago it looked as though RockYou would overtake Slide in terms of active montly users, and today we see that this is still the case.
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Facebook has moved one step closer to becoming the largest U.S. social network according to the latest data from Compete.com. Data from October shows that Facebook grew domestically by almost 4 million while MySpace continued their monthly decline, shedding over 1.58 million users, despite the launch of their highly buzzed MySpace Music product.
It’s clear that in the U.S. users are shifting from MySpace to Facebook and there are no signs that the trend is stopping anytime soon. Facebook also continues to experience massive growth abroad with more than 120 million active users. At Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg suggested that around 50 percent of users return to the site daily.
I’m not sure if he misstated that metric but it’s clear that the site is highly addictive and enjoys a rapidly growing user base. While the latest data wasn’t that surprising, the company had a flat month previously suggesting that their domestic growth might begin to slow. For now there is no slowing and the site continues to surge.
We’ll continue to monitor both domestic and international growth as Facebook expands. At this rate, Facebook could potentially surpass MySpace by the end of the year.
