{"id":615874,"date":"2009-12-29T09:39:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T14:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2009\/12\/29\/it-was-a-facebook-christmas-site-hits-1-in-us-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T09:39:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T14:39:40","slug":"it-was-a-facebook-christmas-site-hits-1-in-us-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/615874","title":{"rendered":"It Was a Facebook Christmas; Site Hits #1 in US For First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christmas is a holiday that brings people together, so perhaps it should be no surprise that Facebook<\/a> has become a part of millions of peoples’ Christmas experiences. For the first time in its history, Facebook was the #1 most visited website in the United States on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year, according to traffic analyst firm Hitwise<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

That’s worth noting. HitWise reported last year<\/a> that Facebook was #2 behind Google on Christmas. People say that Facebook vs. Google will be the web’s biggest battle of coming years – but it looks like Facebook has already won the battle for Christmas.<\/p>\n

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Throughout 2009, Google and Yahoo! Mail were both bigger than Facebook, Hitwise says. Facebook was the most popular search query of the last year<\/a> across all search engine use by US users, however. It’s a social network’s world these days.<\/p>\n

One Christmas gift Facebook users may not have expected: December’s major shift<\/a> away from Facebook’s initial nature as a privacy-centric social network. Apparently that didn’t slow people down from visiting the site on the holidays. <\/p>\n

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Christmas is a holiday that brings people together, so perhaps it should be no surprise that Facebook has become a part of millions of peoples’ Christmas experiences. For the first time in its history, Facebook was the #1 most visited website in the United States on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ads","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}