Facebook takes No. 1 spot in India for social networking
Written on August 27, 2010
Facebook Inc. grabbed the top ranking for the first time of social networking sites in India, comScore Inc. reported Wednesday.
In July, comScore figures show, Palo Alto-based Facebook had 20.9 million visitors in India, up 179 percent from the same period a year ago.
"The social networking phenomenon continues to gain steam worldwide, and India represents one of the fastest growing markets at the moment," said Will Hodgman, comScore executive vice president for the Asia-Pacific region. "Though Facebook has tripled its audience in the past year to pace the growth for the category, several other social networking sites have posted their own sizeable gains."
More than 33 million Internet users age 15 and older in India visited social networking sites in July, representing 84 percent of the total Internet audience. India now ranks as the seventh largest market worldwide for social networking, after the U.S personal loans for bad credit., China, Germany, Russian Federation, Brazil and the U.K. The total Indian social networking audience grew 43 percent in the past year, more than tripling the rate of growth of the total Internet audience in India.
After Facebook, Orkut ranked second in India with 19.9 million visitors during the period, up 16 percent over a year ago. That was followed by BharatStudent.com with 4.4 million visitors, up 3 percent.
San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. had the highest rate of growth among the top five social networking sites, increasing 239 percent to 3.3 million visitors.
Sunnyvale-based Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) owned two of the top 10 social networking sites: Yahoo Pulse (3.5 million visitors) and Yahoo Buzz (1.8 million visitors).
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