Social Network traffic has seen some interesting trends as of late. There is no doubt that social networks are here to stay, and will only continue to become more mainstream. However, not all sites are seeing booming traffic, in fact some seem to be dieing.

Below you will find 37 sites, compared, with their traffic estimates over the last 12 months via Google Trends for Websites.

Google is by no means completely accurate, but like most tools that estimate traffic you need to look at trends and not exact figures.

3 Interesting Social Network Traffic Analysis Takeaways:

• There seems to be a decline in social traffic for a multitude of sites since September
• Twitter and Plurk are seeing explosive increases while Pownce and Identi.ca are falling.
• Facebook, Flickr, Hi5, Linkedin, Mixx and Yelp to name a few are all seeing large surges of increased traffic over the last year.