Last month the four-year-old micro-blogging service Twitter surpassed MySpace in unique visitors to become the No. 3 social networking-type service in the world, according to new data from comScore Inc. Twitter had nearly 96 million unique visitors in August, up 76 percent from the same period last year, comScore said. MySpace, meanwhile, dropped 17 percent during the same period, to 95 million unique visitors last month. Twitter is expected to gain visitors from a redesign of Twitter.com launched two weeks ago, which made the site more like Facebook’s and could draw in users who access Twitter through third-party applications such as TweetDeck. The seven-year-old MySpace, meanwhile, is trying to cast itself as the place to try out new music and entertainment, and a platform for musicians to interact with fans. It also is working on overhauling its home page. Both Twitter and MySpace are dwarfed by Facebook, which grew by 54 percent to 598 million unique visitors in August, and Microsoft’s Windows Live Profile, which integrates with the company’s web-based email and other services and had more than 140 million visitors. Facebook blew past MySpace back in early 2008 to take the top spot globally, according to comScore data. Windows Live Profile has been growing at a pace of about 10 percent per year. For the past year Google’s Orkut service has remained flat, at about 55 million visitors, with most users being located in India and Brazil
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