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For the first time in Britain Facebook surpassed Microsoft website.

27 June,2011 09:34 pm

For the first time in Britain Facebook surpassed Microsoft website. It became UK’s second most popular website after Google.Facebook attracted a record 26.8 million visitors in Britain in May beating the 26.2 million who visited Microsofts MSN/WindowsLive/Bing sites combined. Facebook has been attracting users at the rate of 7 per cent year after year. Over-50 year-olds accounted for more new adults visiting Facebook in the last two years than under-50s. Previously older users were more attracted towards Twitter but now there has been a change in the taste of the older users in Britain compelling a major chunk of the older population to use Facebook.Facebook attracted 140 million visitors in the United States, up 12 percent. In Spain its numbers were up 7 percent, in France 18 percent, in Italy 26 percent and in Germany 72 percent. Twitters visitor numbers rose 22 percent in the United States, 48 percent in France, 58 percent in Italy and more than doubled in Spain.