MySpace is 46% more popular with mobile users than Facebook

Openwave Systems presented the results of its study that show social networking is still most popular online activity for North American mobile web users. Thus Facebook and MySpace present the top two search queries on Google and Yahoo!'s respective mobile search services. 

Openwave Systems representatives believe that the growing popularity of social networking could further represent "a unique opportunity" for mobile operators to form partnerships with social media sites and generate incremental incomes from messaging on these websites. 

MySpace with 46% appears to be more popular with mobile web users than its main rival Facebook. As the research company says, that might mean that MySpace will become the preferred method of mobile communication for some users and could displace several of the most popular email services