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On Christmas Eve, top social networking site Facebook saw its highest traffic levels ever within the U.S., according to a new report from Hitwise. This beats Facebook’s previous record...set back in July.

Facebook also set a record on Christmas Day in the U.K., and MySpace had unusually high traffic levels as well. In Hitwise’srecent blog post, analyst Heather Hopkins offers 3 possible explanations...poor weather, boredom, and the need to send holiday messages to your friends.

The last explanation would seem to be the most plausible, she states, since Christmas Day last year also set a traffic record. The weather was probably also a factor, as New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. were all hit by winter storms.

NOTE: Twitter co-founder Biz Stone tells us that the service saw about 1.5 times more tweets per second on New Year’s Eve than it normally does. He noted that while this was well above normal usage, it was not record-breaking-ly so.

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