Apparently, Pinterest is winning everyone with its pinning charm. Pinterest has been dominating in the web layout and has been inspiration for hundreds of Pinterest clone websites and Pinterest themes for blogs. Indeed, this emerging social network has taken the fashion of content viewing on World Wide Web by storm and pinning is fast becoming frequent online activities in the U.S. Just when I was wondering about the popularity quotient of this fastest growing social network and how it is overtaking other social networks, I read this news just in time. Now it is official that ‘Pinning’ is in and one of the most recurrent social networking activities after ‘FB’ and ‘Tweeting’. Experian has conducted a new study on the number of visits on social networks in the U.S. and the study culminated a report saying that Pinterest has climbed the ladder of popularity to be the third most popular social network. The 2-year old social network grasped the third rank after bandwagons, Facebook and Twitter.
Benchmark and Trend Report
Pinterest claimed the fame and standing where Google+ could not possible reach with its much hyped entry in the social network sphere. The site has been reportedly pushed more hits to businesses than Google+ and YouTube jointly could pull. The hitwise popularity report of social network of Experian further reinforces the massive users’ engagement of Pinterest.
According to a report published by Experian, image bookmarking website has witnessed huge surge in traffic. According to the data published by Experian, Pinterest’s traffic has spilled by 50 percent within the span of January,2012 to February, 2012. No wonder that this stunning growth has shoved the Pinterest social network to surpass other social media services like LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, Tumblr.
- Facebook stood #1 with 7.013 billion visits
- Twitter stood #2 with 182,185,057 visits
- Pinterest stood #3 with 104,415,903 visits
Below these current top 3 social networks, LinkedIn is ranked #4 with 85,733,439, Tagged is at #5 with 72,464,356 visits and and Google+ with 61,041,990, is the sixth in the list of most visited social networks in the U.S. check out more data on number of hits received by top ten social networking websites. Like Experian, ComScore analytics firm had recorded that Pinterest had drawn 17.8 million unique visitors in February, 2012 and users are spending 89 minutes on the site approximately.
