40M U.S. mobile users access social nets every day

20.10.2011

As the world's largest social networking site, it was no surprise that Facebook had the largest mobile audience, with more than 57 million mobile users in August. That's up 50% from the previous year, noted comScore.

's mobile audience jumped by a whopping 75% to reach 13.4 million. LinkedIn's mobile audience climbed 69% to hit 5.5 million.

There are no figures available for , which didn't until this summer.

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