Coming in the last two spots in the report, respectively, Twitter had an average response time of 2.93 seconds, and Myspace, 3.61 seconds.

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During this latest third quarter (July 1 to September 30), Facebook shaved 0.02 seconds off its second quarter average response time, down to 1 second.

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Gordon said the average response time is eight to 12 minutes.

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According to a report last month in the New York Post, that helped account for the record-low average response time four minutes and one second that the FDNY reported for 2010.

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Despite a few outages in the past few months, Facebook continues to zip along as the fastest social network in terms of average response time for the site, according to a report by web analytics company AlertSite.

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According to a report of social networking sites in the month of February by web performance monitoring company AlertSite, MySpace's response time clocked in at an average 5.04 seconds, an Internet eternity compared to Facebook (1.67 seconds), LinkedIn (1.96 seconds) and Twitter (1.78 seconds).

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