Facebook joins RATM in Christmas #1 spot
15:12, Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Yesterday, Hitwise tweeted the news that Facebook took Number 1 spot as the US's top-visited site for 2 days over Christmas. This is the first time Facebook has ever been the #1 visited site in the US, and it overtook Google.com (web search only) on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, taking more than a 7.5% market share on both occasions.
The news comes just days after Facebook hit the headlines in the UK, for helping the mosh-pit favourite "Killing in the name" by Rage Against the Machine, to hold off this year's X-Factor winner, for the #1 spot in the UK Singles Chart. A campaign, centering around a Group set up on Facebook that became viral to an unexpected and unprecedented scale, was set up in an effort to upset the formbook for the first time in 4 years of X-Factor Dominance.
The success that followed allegedly resulted in a job offer for the Group Organisers by none other than Simon Cowell himself, and it should be noted, also raised in the region of £100k for homeless charity "Shelter".
Facebook and Twitter are now surely battling it out to be the outright King of Social Media sites, and more so a tool for business to showcase their talents. Through the use of Fan Pages, Events promotion and one of the most-targeted advertising systems on the web, can any business afford to ignore Facebook when it comes to Social Media Marketing?
Tags: SEO,Social Media,Facebook