Facebook, Twitter, drew a record number of visitors to the United States in July

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comScore in July traffic numbers are out, and by analogy with the June conclusions, Facebook and Twitter have seen record traffic in terms of United States unique visitors per month. In July, Facebook saw tremendous 162 million unique visitors, compared with 160.8 million unique impressions in June, and 157.2 million uniques in May.

Twitter also posted record traffic in its history, five years; with 32.8 million unique visitors in July, the United States in may, compared with 30.6 million unique visitors in June and 27 million unique impressions. As we said in the past, the constant increase in traffic is a big deal for Twitter, which splits traffic between their own mobile clients, and many third-party customers, who are used to access the network. And Twitter has just completed the transition from the old Web interface to its improved, feature-rich Web applications.

LinkedIn, which saw traffic spike post IPO, Passing a little in terms of unique visitors in the United States in July, seeing 32.5 million unique visitors per month, compared with 33.9 million unique visitors in June. MySpace continued to bleed traffic 32.8 million unique visitors in July (tied with Twitter) from 33 million in June.

While we once thought that Facebook and Twitter will duel it out to users and traffic, clearly this is not the case anymore. Facebook's traffic fivefold Twitter United States visitors. Twitter is not a "murder" of Facebook, or vice versa, as Twitter continues to grow in terms of traffic.

But with the new kid on the block, Google + steadily gaining users, it should be interesting to see if the search giant reaches the social network Twitter traffic. Already there are signs that Google + traffic slows down, but it's still early, and that may change.

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