Facebook claims no user drop - someone is lying

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Facebook claims no user drop - someone is lying

Saturday, February 23, 2008 1:35 PM | Social Social Media Facebook Social Networking

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I ran a piece earlier this week that facebook is seeing a drop in users in the UK. Of course facebook pops up and slams the ComScore stats that show that the site indeed lost UK users in January.

I know for certain facebook lost page views (aka traffic) in for nearly the entire month of February.

I understand that Alexa is more of a barometer of a sites traffic, reach and rank. However it does show fairly accurate trends, such as below.

faebook page views drop

It also appears that facebook has been seeing a drop in website popularity and ranking since late January and about on par with what it was getting the first part of December 2007.

facebook rank drop

Whomever at facebook publicly claimed that facebook isn't losing users, told a pretty big fib if you ask me.

I would love someone from facebook to explain the charts above and again claim they aren't experiencing traffic and user drops.

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I would love to read your comments on this!

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Posted by w0lfh0und on 2/23/2008 3:56 PM: There has been so much bad press surrounding these sites of late particularly with regards to the use of data and advertising that I believe this is a trend that is set to continue.
Posted by Allen on 2/23/2008 4:24 PM: Hi w0lfh0und, I will have to agree with you. I think people (users) are going to actively seek smaller niche sites as time goes on.