Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Websites. Here are the top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites as derived from our eBizMBA Rank which is a continually updated average of each website's U.S. Traffic Rank from Quantcast and Global Traffic Rank from both Alexa and SimilarWeb. "*#*" Denotes an estimate for sites with limited data. 1 | facebook3 - eBizMBA Rank | 1,500,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 5 - Quantcast Rank | 3 - Alexa Rank | 2 - SimilarWeb Rank | Last Updated: May 1, 2017. The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA 2 | YouTube3 - eBizMBA Rank | 1,499,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 2 - Quantcast Rank | 4 - Alexa Rank | 3 - SimilarWeb Rank | Last Updated: May 1, 2017. 3 | Twitter11 - eBizMBA Rank | 400,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 11 - Quantcast Rank | 16 - Alexa Rank | 7 - SimilarWeb Rank | Last Updated: May 1, 2017.
Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh) Social Networks Work. Social Media Metrics. FEATURESocial Media Metrics By David Stuart Social media has been adopted by every type of library in recent years, from small special libraries to large national ones. Many now host blogs and wikis, are members of numerous social network sites, and even participate in virtual worlds. These sites and technologies offer new ways for library staff and users to communicate and collaborate. However, with so many different technologies and sites available—and with more emerging all the time—it is important that librarians develop methods for measuring the use and effectiveness of the technologies so that time is not wasted and the implementations are justifiable to upper management.
Social media—the most popular are blogs, wikis, social network sites, and microblogging—offer both opportunities and difficulties in the establishment of metrics: Social media adds a level of qualitative information to the quantitative data traditionally made available through web analytics. Blogs • Blog comments. Libraries and Facebook. Virtual Worlds? “Outlook Good” (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT. © 2008 AJ Kelton. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License ( EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 5 (September/October 2008) AJ Kelton (“AJ Brooks”) AJ Kelton (“AJ Brooks”) is Director of Emerging Instructional Technology in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University. Comments on this article can be sent to the author at keltona@mail.montclair.edu or sorry.afk@gmail.com and/or can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page.
A year ago, I picked up the Magic 8-Ball sitting on my desk and asked: “Are virtual worlds a viable teaching and learning environment?” Turning the ball over, I received my answer: “Reply hazy, try again.” The idea of synchronous interactive spaces is not new, of course. Second Life? It is nearly impossible to have a discussion of virtual worlds today without focusing on Second Life (SL). Technical. Research Sharing Gets New Tools and Goes Trendy. Last fall I wrote about several social networking/collaboration projects from Elsevier—2collab and Scirus Topic Pages ( The initiatives were designed to support academic library communities and their researchers with advanced "Research 2.0" tools.
The resources created social spaces in which researchers could work together. These tools offer platforms for shared knowledge to be leveraged for information discovery and evaluation. Since then, I’ve seen greatly increased activity in this space, with new initiatives popping up in a number of arenas, many related to scientific collaboration, others to more general research organization and networking. Some of the tools emphasize organizing and managing references—an online extension of a software tool such as EndNote. Others emphasize collaborative knowledge sharing. The sites and services for research sharing do seem to be proliferating at a rapid pace. DOPPLR.