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Re:More than half of Facebook users may quit site, poll finds by gyardley on Friday May 21, 2010 @01:56PM (#1368141)
Obvious the poll is silly. However, bad publicity can still sour people on the company and reduce overall Facebook usage.

Quantcast isn't perfect by any means, but it's directional, and according to it, United States users and visits to Facebook have been flat since the start of February:

http://www.quantcast.com/facebook.com

When did the current wave of Facebook privacy hoopla start?

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Re:More than half of Facebook users may quit site, poll finds by logic on Friday May 21, 2010 @02:24PM (#1368257)
Compare that graph to Google, though:

http://www.quantcast.com/google.com

Even YouTube shows a similar curve:

http://www.quantcast.com/youtube.com

I suspect this is a reflection of Quantcast's measurements, rather than something specific to Facebook.

More "top sites" data from Quant: http://www.quantcast.com/top-sites-1

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Re:More than half of Facebook users may quit site, poll finds by evansolomon on Friday May 21, 2010 @02:00PM (#1368161)
One more data point, ComScore shows Facebook growing from about 117m to 122m in the US since February.
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