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  • Blogs are the fastest growing form of online publishing, skyrocketing from nowhere in 1999 to almost 80 million unique visitors in August 2008.
     –comScore Mediametrix. www.comscore.com.

  • Advertisers spent an estimated $1.2 billion in 2008 to place ads on social networking sites with that number predicted to rise to $1.4 billion by 2011.
    eMarketer. www.emarketer.com.

  • The top social networking /social media sites, as of November 2008, were Blogger (222 million unique visitors), Facebook (200 million unique visitors), MySpace (126 million unique visitors), Wordpress (114 million unique visitors), and Windows Live paces (87 million unique visitors).
    comScore Worldwide Traffic Statistics. Nov. 2009. www.comscore.com.
     


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