UK Facebook Statistics for August 2010

Aug. 26, 2010 - PRLog -- Social networking has taken the world by storm in the past 2 years with Facebook leading from the front. With over 400 million active users Facebook is also the most trafficked social media site in the world.

Facebook continues to be the outright leader in social networking sites in the UK, with far more users than its competitors; Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, and Linkedin:

UK Users
Facebook           24.2m
Twitter      3.7m
Flickr      2.9m
MySpace      2.7m
Linkedin           2.1m

(Figures from June 2010)

Facebook currently has over 25,000,000 active users in the UK (August 2010), that’s approximately 45% of the population. See the graphs for further statistics and a demographic breakdown of Facebook users (Graphs based on figures for August 2010).

What’s more, these millions of users are now spending more time on Facebook each month than ever before - the average user spending 6h 9m 32s on the site in June 2010.

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Sources: BBC, Facebook, Google – public data, Alexa.

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