That didn’t take long – Facebook passes MySpace in the UK
September 26th, 2007
At least according to Nielsen/NetRatings Facebook has surpassed MySpace in the UK with over 6.5 million users – 541% growth since Dec ‘06.
At the Facebook Developer Garage in London a few weeks ago Facebook’s VP of Product Development (Chamath Palihapitiya) mentioned they had 5.2 million UK users so I suspect the real total is somewhere in between but that growth rate is phenomenal. Almost as interesting were some other stats Palihapitiya presented – IIRC he mentioned a 50% daily return rate with each user burning through over 1500 page views a month…

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