Yuwie overtaking MySpace in site activity

Take a look at the graph below:



It shows the amount of pages that visitors view during one visit on Yuwie and MySpace. Looks like Yuwie is overtaking MySpace in 'activeness' already :)

Yuwie's declining growth rate; is it true and does it matter?

Dave wrote a good posting in which he points out that the growth of Yuwie is declining and we should stop treating it as a spamming network and start treating it as what it is; a great social network.

Declining Growth
The statement that the growth of Yuwie is actually declining is a bit strange and we might argue about that. After all, we are all seeing the total membership number growing nicely on the homepage, don't we?
To give a better insight in the Yuwie Growth, I decided to chart some of the numbers.
First let's have a look at the Total Membership Growth:

It's nicely inclining, and you might even say the rise grows steeper. But it isn't exponantial, we all can see that.

Ok, now let's have a look at the growth per day:

It's somewhat more irregular, but we can still see an rising trend, can't we?
Is the statement about the declining growth of Yuwie not true?

Well, just take a look at the last chart:

This is the relative growth per day; the % of increase in members every day. As you can see, in this picture the growth actually is declining.

The question remains how we want to look at the growth of Yuwie; as Dave points out himself we should stop looking at it as a money machine, but treat is as a social network. From that perspective we don't need the exponantial growth or the increasing relative growth; not everyone needs to refer lot's of peoples.
Just join, be an active member and start making friends. That's what a social network is all about isn't it!

Growth of Yuwie not exponential

A lot of people are talking about the enormous and exponential growth of Yuwie. Of course it´s true that Alexa is showing a big growth of traffic for Yuwie:

But does the membership also has a similar growth? Is it really exponantial?
I decided to try and look up as much data about the membership count mentioned on different blogs on different dates, in order to be able to reconstruct the growth rate of the membership.
I managed to get quite some data, and this is how the chart looks like:

It's a steady (strong) growth, but not exponential (at least not for this date range).