Twitter, Friendfeed Growth Stalls For May; LinkedIn drops, Facebook Climbs 8.5%

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Facebook, meanwhile, gained over 8.5 per cent, boasting 113,014,638 visits in May, and further widened the gap over once-rival MySpace, which also saw minimal growth.

Indeed, Facebook was the only social networking platform that gained any considerable ground. Friendfeed was up marginally, Plurk dipped a little, and Linkedin dropped over 3 per cent.

Despite all the hype over Twitter – and to a lesser extent, Friendfeed – this chart gives you an indication of just how small all of these networks are compared to Facebook, which just marches on month after month.

What does all this mean for Twitter? Nothing, really – with the massive boost in traffic the site has seen in the last year, and particularly the last few months, a plateau is long...