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Following the last post about Wireds note on the lack of income in social networks; Alex Burmaster (Nielsen Online) states the following to BBC Click: “The slow down in social networks is being somewhat exaggerated. It’s a natural form of any growth that we see in the online eco-system.”

Burmaster is the analyst which compiled the figures showing that there has been a 5% slowdown in new UK users to Facebook and MySpace between December 2007 and January this year.

BBC Click article: Evolution of the social network

The Norwegian company Colt Kommunikasjon did a somewhat similar study which they published a week ago. It shows that 50.000 (out of 1 070 000) Norwegian Facebook users left the social network from february to march (one month!).

Colt Kommunikasjon article (Norwegian): Nordmenn rømmer Facebook