News Analysis: Facebook, now a 6-year-old company with about 400 million users, is a major player in the way people consume news all around the world, according to ReadWriteWeb and research company Hitwise. Hitwise found that Facebook was the No. 4 source of visits to news and media sites the week of Jan. 25, after Google (17.3 percent), Yahoo (7.9 percent) and MSN (4.4 percent). Looking forward, Facebook could become a supreme recommendation engine, with users going to the Web 2.0 site to socialize, share and discuss news, and recommend products to buy.
– Facebook, which turned six years old today and has some 400 million users,
is a major player in the way people consume news all around the world.
That was the premise of a Feb. 1 post by ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick, who wrote in
reaction to Facebook’s suggestion that users become
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