Twitter Growth Just +1.27% For August; Facebook Down -0.37%; Friendfeed +13.75%

Last month we reported that the flat (or negative) June-to-July numbers seen across almost all social network sites was perhaps indicative of a lull within the industry as a whole, and for aficionados the August data makes for grim reading.

Twitter gained just 1.27% month-on-month between July and August 2009, registering 23,579,044 unique visits (reports Compete.com).

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Meanwhile, Facebook dipped 0.27% to a still heady 122,220,617 uniques. When was the last time Facebook lost ground month to month? Has it ever?

On the other side of the table, new Facebook purchase Friendfeed

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