The Power of Social Networking and the Battle for Page Views
I received an email over the weekend that talked about the Facebook / Microsoft deal, since this topic has been talked about forever I ignored most of it. However, the article did include a chart that I found to be very interesting (but not really surprising). We all knew Yahoo and MySpace ruled worldwide traffic scene in terms of pure page views. But what surprised me was not who topped the chart or that Google controls 3 of the top 8, it is that Orkut, Google’s social networking platform ranks just behind Facebook. How did Orkut, which does not have a stake in the US social networking market, get so big without anyone noticing? I know that they are huge in countries like Brazil and India but still, to be ranked just behind Facebook without the US market is amazing. Makes you wonder what will happen when Google decide to open Orkut, or whatever social networking platform they are developing, to everyone. One thing is for certain, once that happens this list will change - its obvious Orkut will jump up but will MySpace and / or Facebook drop down?
- Social Networking World Map: It isn’t just Facebook and MySpace
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- How To Take Social Networking Global
- The World Map Of Social Networks
- MySpace Outperforms All Other Social Networking Sites
