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		<title>Google+ growth since launch</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/07/20/google-growth-since-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, June 28th, Google launched their latest foray in the social networking arena with Google+. In the days following the launch, as invites became more readily available, visits to Google+ steadily increased, particularly between July 5th and July 12th. To date, Tuesday, July 12th and Thursday, July 14th were the peak days for total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential Race 2012:  Tracking Candidates&#8217; Social Efforts</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/05/18/presidential-race-2012-tracking-candidates-social-efforts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/05/18/presidential-race-2012-tracking-candidates-social-efforts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 15:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Campaigns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To date, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich announced their official bids for the White House on Twitter and YouTube. Ron Paul raised over one million dollars in 24 hours online through his political action committee. President Obama hosted an online town hall about the economy on Facebook. Needless to say, the race to the White [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Facebook Town Hall Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/04/25/obamas-facebook-town-hall-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/04/25/obamas-facebook-town-hall-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 20th, President Obama visited Facebook headquarters to hold an online &#8220;town hall&#8221; meeting focused on the economy and The White House&#8217;s proposals for deficit reduction. Questions for the President were submitted in advance via The White House&#8217;s Facebook page, through The White House&#8217;s website, live from a number of social networks and from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impact of paywall on NYTimes.com</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/04/11/impact-of-paywall-on-nytimes-com/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/04/11/impact-of-paywall-on-nytimes-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Subscriptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[News and Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of speculation, the paywall for The New York Times went live at 2pm on Monday, March 28th, which limits online readers (non-print subscribers) to 20 articles each month. For smartphone and tablet applications, only the top news section will remain free and access to other sections will need a subscription. To understand the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Bowl, Search and Social</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/02/04/super-bowl-search-and-social/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/02/04/super-bowl-search-and-social/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this time of year. Anticipation builds around the match-up, Green Bay vs. Pittsburgh, Danica Patrick plus Jillian Michaels on the eagerly anticipated Go Daddy commercial, and whether the Super Bowl could cause a heart attack mid-game. But beyond Packers vs. Steelers (I&#8217;ll leave the Patrick vs. Michaels match-up for a post game analysis) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday retail gets more social</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/01/05/holiday-retail-gets-more-social/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/01/05/holiday-retail-gets-more-social/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With Facebook ranked as the #1 website in the US, retailers have been increasingly turning to social media to communicate with current and potential customers, particularly during the critical holiday shopping season. As a traffic driver, the Social Networking and Forums category ranked 3rd overall behind Search Engines and cross-shopping across other retailers in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Facebook.com generates nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/11/19/facebook-com-generates-nearly-1-in-4-page-views-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/11/19/facebook-com-generates-nearly-1-in-4-page-views-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March, we reported an important milestone when the market share of visits to Facebook.com* surpassed Google.com*. Since then, we have continued to watch the growth of Facebook.com, which increased 60% from the same week last year and represented 1 in 10 US Internet visits last week. The amount of content consumption taking place on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Moshi Monsters in the US</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/03/26/moshi-monsters-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/03/26/moshi-monsters-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids Websites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Robin Goad wrote about the rising popularity of Moshi Monsters in the UK, so I was curious to see how the website is performing in the US. Moshi Monsters offers visitors the chance to adopt a pet monster and take care of their monster by earning a virtual currency called &#8216;Rox&#8217; through solving [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>1 Year Anniversary for Foursquare</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/03/12/1-year-anniversary-for-foursquare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/03/12/1-year-anniversary-for-foursquare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2010/03/12/1-year-anniversary-for-foursquare/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Location-based services have been a popular topic this week, as Twitter enabled geo-location features and Facebook announced the launch of a new location-based feature in April. Another location-based social network, Foursquare, marked their one year anniversary of their launch yesterday. While the primary use of the service is to &#8216;check-in&#8217; with mobile devices at local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You Mom campaign from Procter &amp; Gamble</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/03/09/thank-you-mom-campaign-from-procter-gamble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/03/09/thank-you-mom-campaign-from-procter-gamble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coupons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, P&#038;G started a campaign called &#8216;Thank You Mom&#8216; to help with the cost of travel and accommodations for the mom (or important supporter) of all of the Team USA athletes so they could see their children compete. The accompanying website, Thankyoumom.com provided content from blogs, videos and tweets from [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Social networks displacing e-cards</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/02/25/social-networks-displacing-e-cards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/02/25/social-networks-displacing-e-cards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egreetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2010/02/25/social-networks-displacing-e-cards/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re often thinking about what people are doing on social networks and one of the most common uses is keeping in touch with friends and family, especially for birthday greetings and holiday messages. Once the domain of e-greetings, social networks have instead become the common place to send &#038; post messages. While the traffic to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>5 Minutes of Facebook Celebrity</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/02/04/5-minutes-of-facebook-celebrity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/02/04/5-minutes-of-facebook-celebrity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2010/02/04/5-minutes-of-facebook-celebrity/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Notice anything different about your friends on Facebook? Suddenly they all look a bit more like celebrities! The latest trend to hit Facebook has been to replace your profile picture with one of your celebrity doppelganger. Last week, the top 2 search terms including the word &#8216;celebrity&#8217; were &#8216;what celebrity do I look like&#8217; and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Social network impact for retailers</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/01/29/social-network-impact-for-retailers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/01/29/social-network-impact-for-retailers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2010/01/29/social-network-impact-for-retailers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Social networking has become the most popular activity online and visits to the category represented 13% of all US Internet visits in December. As the social networking audience continues to grow, the category has become a major source of traffic for retailers, surpassing categories such as Rewards and Directories, comprised of comparison shopping tools and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Facebook Hits #1 on Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/01/04/facebook-hits-1-on-christmas-and-new-years-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/01/04/facebook-hits-1-on-christmas-and-new-years-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2010/01/04/facebook-hits-1-on-christmas-and-new-years-day/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The main Google page has been ranked the most visited site on a daily basis for U.S. Internet users. That statement has held true for 364 days of 2009. Google&#8217;s dominance of &#8220;all category&#8221; visits was disrupted when Facebook visits surged on Christmas Day. Facebook was able, albeit by a slighter margin, to recapture the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday shopping with social networks</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/12/01/holiday-shopping-with-social-networks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/12/01/holiday-shopping-with-social-networks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Friday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyber Monday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2009/12/01/holiday-shopping-with-social-networks/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, our custom category of 155 Social Networking websites received just over 10% of all US Internet visits. With such a large audience, marketers have flocked to websites like Facebook and Twitter to reach out to consumers during the holiday shopping season. The share of downstream traffic to the Retail 500 coming from both [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Twitter Revisited &#8211; in More than 140 Characters</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/10/29/twitter-revisited-in-more-than-140-characters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/10/29/twitter-revisited-in-more-than-140-characters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2009/10/29/twitter-revisited-in-more-than-140-characters/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick update from my Twitter post from last month. I had the pleasure of speaking at two excellent conferences this week, iMedia Breakthrough and Digital Media West. During the Q&#038;A of my talk at Digital Media, I was asked about my views of Twitter&#8217;s staying power versus competition from Facebook. I think this charts [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Facebook pushed past MySpace with Connect</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/09/09/facebook-pushed-past-myspace-with-connect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/09/09/facebook-pushed-past-myspace-with-connect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MySpace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Social networking has continued to be one of the most activities online with online users, second only to search (and likely to surpass soon). The Social Networking category has experienced a resurgence of growth as websites like Facebook and Twitter have increased in popularity. Visits to a custom category of 155 Social Networking websites increased [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Craigslist Top Search Term Last Week</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/03/20/craigslist-top-search-term-last-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/03/20/craigslist-top-search-term-last-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in three years, searches for &#8216;craigslist&#8217; surpassed &#8216;myspace,&#8217; highlighting the increasing popularity of online classifieds during the economic downturn.U.S. searches on the term &#8220;craigslist&#8221; have increased 105 percent for the week ending March 14, 2009, compared with the same week last year. This is the first time that the query has [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Photobucket losing market share</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/03/05/photobucket-losing-market-share/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/03/05/photobucket-losing-market-share/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photo sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Posting digital photos online remains a popular activity among many Internet users, particularly as many are increasingly uploading to social networks along with photo sharing websites. Among the photo sharing websites, the market share of visits for the top ranked Photobucket, declined 24% to reach 27% in February 2009 from 36% the same month one [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Facebook Turns 5</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/02/04/facebook-turns-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/02/04/facebook-turns-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the fifth anniversary of the launch of Facebook, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to look at the website&#8217;s impact upon the social networking category. Overall, Facebook was the #5 ranked website by total market share of visits in January 2009. One year ago, visits to Facebook represented 15% of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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