Twitter is expanding beyond the Web 2.0 elite.
The micro-blogging site logged a 343 percent growth over the last year, according to a Thursday report from Nielsen Online. Twitter had about 2.4 million unique visitors in September 2008, up from 533,000 in September 2007.
Following closely behind was Tagged.com, which grew by 330 percent over the last year to grab about 3.9 million new users last month. Rounding out the top three was Ning with almost 3 million unique visitors.
“Tagged.com, which has really taken off since April of this year, indexes highest among 35-49 year olds," Nielsen wrote in a blog post. “This is especially noteworthy since Tagged was originally targeted towards high school students, but has since been opened up to anyone older than 13."
MySpace still tops the list of most heavily trafficked social networking sites. The News Corp.-owned site had about 59.4 unique visitors last month, though that was only a 1 percent jump from the same time period last year.
Facebook, on the other hand, increased by about 116 percent, from 18 million unique hits to 39 million. LinkedIn also jumped 193 percent to log about 12 million unique visitors for the month of September.
The micro-blogging site logged a 343 percent growth over the last year, according to a Thursday report from Nielsen Online. Twitter had about 2.4 million unique visitors in September 2008, up from 533,000 in September 2007.
Following closely behind was Tagged.com, which grew by 330 percent over the last year to grab about 3.9 million new users last month. Rounding out the top three was Ning with almost 3 million unique visitors.
“Tagged.com, which has really taken off since April of this year, indexes highest among 35-49 year olds," Nielsen wrote in a blog post. “This is especially noteworthy since Tagged was originally targeted towards high school students, but has since been opened up to anyone older than 13."
MySpace still tops the list of most heavily trafficked social networking sites. The News Corp.-owned site had about 59.4 unique visitors last month, though that was only a 1 percent jump from the same time period last year.
Facebook, on the other hand, increased by about 116 percent, from 18 million unique hits to 39 million. LinkedIn also jumped 193 percent to log about 12 million unique visitors for the month of September.
