Based on recent comScore figures, Facebook attracted 161.1 million unique visitors worldwide in September, compared with 117.9 million for MySpace.

Facebook’s figures reflect a jump of 4.7 percent from the 153.9 million people who visited the social network in August. MySpace’s results reflect a decline of 1.6 percent from the 119.8 million visitors it received in August.

The global gap between the two social networks is now 43.2 million visitors. In the U.S. Facebook had 41.4 million unique visitors in September, while MySpace had 73.0 million visitors.

Source: Erick Schonfeld, “Facebook Widens The Gap With MySpace Internationally”, TechCrunch, October 29, 2008

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