Social networking giant Facebook has now become even more giant, with new data showing it is now the fourth most popular website on the internet.
New figures from analytics firm ComScore show the site gained 24 million unique visitors worldwide during June, boosting it to 340 million unique visitors in total. It now only trails behind Google, Microsoft and Yahoo websites.
The site has grown by a massive 157% according to the firm, gaining 208 million visitors in the process. It has since passed retail giant Amazon, auction house eBay and AOL. It is now more popular than the Wikimedia Foundation websites, including Wikipedia.
The site is also the sixth biggest in the US with 77 million unique visitors in June, behind Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and all the Fox Interactive Media sites, including MySpace.com.
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