26 Mar 10 Americans Account for Almost Half of the Soc Net Users

Americans are the third most active users of the social networking sites. On an average they spend 6 hours, 2 minutes and 34 seconds on these sites, which is higher than the global average of 5 hours 27 minutes 33 seconds. It was found in a study conducted by The Nielsen Company in February 2010. The study also found that American also form 47.3% of the total global traffic to social networking websites.

The number of unique users grew to 314.5 million in February 2010 from 244.2 million in February 2009, which is a 30% increase in the total number of global social networking site users. In the same period, the number of American social networking users grew from 115 million to 149 million, which is a rise of 22.8%. (See image for complete data).

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