American traffic to Facebook will soon overtake that to rival social network MySpace, according to blog Royal Pingdom.

Analysing statistics from Google Trends, the blog predicted that Facebook will see higher traffic than MySpace within the next month or two.

It gave several possible reasons for this, including the chance that MySpace users are also signing up to Facebook and continuing to use both sites.

There is also the possibility that Facebook is managing to attract users of other non-MySpace networks, as well as those who have never used such websites before.

The blog said: “It doesn’t look like MySpace is losing that much traffic, so it’s unlikely that its users are just jumping ship.”

Audience numbers for Facebook rose by 153 per cent from nearly 52.2 million in 2007 to 132.1 million this year worldwide, according to figures released by comScore in August.

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Syed Raheem Quadri-SEM