In case you missed it, Facebook is pretty popular. As of June 2008, they’d twice as many uniques as MySpace in January 2009)—and even in the US, one of the few Facebook-is-#2 holdouts, Hitwise takes a look at the stats—and they say that
While it’s obvious that the members of Facebook Connect have helped FB gain some visibility and perhaps even legitimacy, personally, I’m still a little skeptical that Connect did all that. What else was going on then?
On the other hand, it seems unlikely that such a sudden, steep climb came from a snowball effect alone.
What do you think? Is it just a coincidence, or was Connect really the tipping point (for the US, anyway—Facebook had already beat MySpace worldwide at that point)? Do you use Facebook Connect?
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