Internet traffic Monitoring agency comscore publishes statistics in Monday

According to foreign media reports, the Internet traffic monitoring agency comscore published statistics in Monday that the site last month added 6.7% new users after the US social networking site LinkedIn launched its initial public offering in May this year as the first major U.S. social-networking site to be listed.

The total number of LinkedIn users in May this year reached 33.4 million per cent, up 6.7% from last month, according to comscore statistics. In April this year, the number of US users in LinkedIn was down 2.5% from last month. Currently, the total number of LinkedIn's U.S. users is close to the second-ranked social networking site, MySpace. In May this year, the total number of MySpace users in the United States was 34.9 million.

LinkedIn made its initial public offering on May 18 this year. On the first day of stock trading, LinkedIn rose more than one times. But in the ensuing deal, LinkedIn's share price had a certain amount of pullback. To continue to expand the number of users, LinkedIn has added some new features and allowed outside software developers to take advantage of the site's "Social Atlas" (social graph).

"The growth of the current number of users in LinkedIn shows the company's strong growth momentum," Ken Seine Ken Sena, an investment agency Evercore, said. The growth of users on the LinkedIn platform will remain strong, and we believe there will still be huge opportunities for LinkedIn's future development. ”

Shares in LinkedIn rose 2.44 on the New York Stock Exchange in Monday, up 3.4% to $75.27. The company's share price has risen 67% since the IPO.

Global growth

By 2017, the total number of registered users in the world would be more than 500 million, far more than 90 million last year, Senna said. Senna gave the LinkedIn stock a "neutral" rating in investor reports. Neutral In the first quarter of this year, LinkedIn's revenue rose more than one times to $93.9 million trillion, while net profit grew 14% per cent to $2.08 million trillion.

Facebook remains the largest social networking site in the United States, with a total of 157.2 million users in May, up from 154.1 million in April this year, ComScore said in the report. The number of Facebook users in the United States has been rising every month since February this year.

But another market research firm, inside Facebook, posted a report saying that Facebook added 11.8 million users in May, less than 13.9 million in April and 20 million in the last part of the month. Although inside Facebook says Facebook users are close to 700 million, U.S. users lost 6 million in May. Facebook's US users were 155.2 million at the beginning of May and 149.4 million at the end of the month, the report showed.

Twitter is currently the fourth-largest social networking site in the United States, with a user population of 27 million. Twitter's number of American users in April this year was 24.5 million.