Comments on: Facebook Dip Seasonal, Here is Why!

By: Facebook Developer Garage Singapore - Asia’s First is here! » e27 - Discovering Web Innovation in Asia

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:28:34 +0000

[...] GigaOm reported that Facebook’s traffic has tanked a little, is it true or is it just speculation? Could all the Apps be annoying users away from Facebook? I don’t think we’ll ever really know since Facebook is a closed network, but for sure there are some stats that are positive: user numbers are up and user numbers outside of the US are growing tremendously quick. Australia’s the fastest growing region in Asia-Pac and HongKong network has nearly twice the numbers of the Singapore network. Nevertheless the Singapore network is definitely thriving. [...]

By: Is Facebook Really Struggling in 2008? - Profy.Com

Is Facebook Really Struggling in 2008? - Profy.Com — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:15:50 +0000

[...] network. Om Malik cleared some of the confusion up, when he revealed that this was sort of a seasonal dip and that “the 9.3 percent decline in unique visitors and 3.8 percent decline in page [...]

By: honewatson

honewatson — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:48:19 +0000

Facebook will die now. There is already a growing backlash since the new ads release.

By: Why EA Added Dr. Kathleen to Pogo — and Why You Should Care « GigaOM

Why EA Added Dr. Kathleen to Pogo — and Why You Should Care « GigaOM — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:28:24 +0000

[...] minutes of site activity a day. Internet darling Facebook receives disproportionate coverage with 18 million active monthly users in August, but last May, was averaging just 186 minutes in activity a month. The top games from [...]

By: Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Oct 17, 2007

Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Oct 17, 2007 — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:54:40 +0000

[...] Facebook’s seasonal traffic changes Facebook traffic, according to GigaOm, has seasonal lulls, and a Facebook official helps to confirm this is true. Others wonder if the numbers that GigaOm was [...]

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:12:08 +0000

Gotta love the guy who offers the greek week explanation. Dude there are not enough greeks in Greece to account for that drop.

As I mentioned on your previous post. Why are you comparing a chart of 'total uniques' with a chart of 'US market share'???

These graphs are two completely different animals. Social sites don't take as much of a summer hit as the net in general so the broad based net pick up at the end of summer last year showed a drop in FB market share. Yet they still increased total uniques last year. That's not the case this year.

Nice try with byzantine quantcast explanation, why don't you stop rationalizing and just accept multiple independent streams of data from other sources that agree with dip??

So... you were wrong.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:00:41 +0000

I knew facebook was still owning up!! Haha, I’m glad to see they are not suffering losses. Thanks for clearing it up!
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By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:09:05 +0000

Question? Do these statistics companies still only using ie to collect their data? How would many college kids going from their parents pc to their new shiny mac that runs safari/firefox effect these numbers?

By: Chris Bennett

Chris Bennett — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:48:24 +0000

Also keep in mind that as students return to school, Greek rush week events occur. At UCSD at least, all of the girls in the Greek system disable their Facebook accounts and set MySpace privacy to maximum during the week due to Panhellenic regulations. I'm pretty sure this has quite an effect.

Also, look for the drop when people disable Facebook accounts for Lent. (This is noticed internally, though the outward effect on stats may be minimal.)

By: Andrew Lipsman, comScore

Andrew Lipsman, comScore — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:22:32 +0000

Quantcast's claim that the comScore panel has a home bias is nonsense. comScore’s panel includes home, work, and university audiences and each sample is weighted and projected according to the size of the respective Internet population.