Social networking site Facebook who is a month ago on No. 10, jumped to No. 3 behind established video powerhouses YouTube and Hulu in terms of total video streams in October 2009, according to a study by Nielsen,

In October 2009, YouTube, which remains the top video streaming site, generated more than 6.6 billion video streams to over 105 million unique viewers, followed by Hulu which generated over 632 million video streams to more than 13.4 million unique viewers.

Nielsen’s latest VideoCensus numbers reveal that Facebook generated more than 217 million streams in October to more than 31.5 million unique viewers from US, up from 110 million streams to 23 million viewers in September 2009.

[Source: NewTeeVee]