Facebook has hit a new traffic record, according to figures released by comScore on 13 July. The social network saw more than 141 million unique visitors to their site for June, beating the previous record of 130 million set just the month before.

The record-breaking achievement comes despite the privacy backlashes Facebook have faced, and going by its track record, will only continue to grow.

In June 2009, the social network posted 77 million unique US visitors, a number they have almost doubled in just a year.

Facebook mobile users are also on the upswing: PC World reports that there are now 150 million users who access the social network on mobile devices, up from 100 million in April.

The figures mean Facebook is surging past its competition; both MySpace and Twitter are experiencing growth plateaus.

However, Twitter is still posting record traffic in terms of tweet volume, something that can be attributed to users “accessing the site through third-party clients and mobile devices instead of its website”, reports Mashable.

The most visited web property in the US, according to the report, is still Google and its sites. It had a total of 179 million unique visitors for May, but this is a number Facebook is only just shy of.


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