A recent report has revealed further data to show the continued popularity and growth of Social Networking giants Facebook as competitors play catch up.

The report conducted by The Nielsen Co showed that in April 2009 Facebook users spent 13.9 billion minutes on the site, particularly amazing when compared with the same month in the previous year. In April 2008 1.7 billion minutes were spent on Facebook – a huge rise in just a 12 month period.

It seems that Facebook has demolished any close competition in the likes of MySpace and Bebo. Their closest rival MySpace saw 5 billion minutes spent on the site by its users in April, a fall of 31% in comparison with last years figures and less than half of that of Facebook this year.

This said Facebook can’t quite bask in social media eternal glory just yet. Their latest competitor Twitter continues to grow at a phenominal rate. It may still only be the 5th most popular social networking site but usage of the site has increased 3,712% to nearly 300 million minutes.

Twitter may seem far behind particularly considering Facebook managed a huge growth of 700% over the past 12 months but if Twittercontinues to grow at the same rate it may soon be a realistic competitor.

Source: PC Advisor