Top Social Networking Sites in India
February 18th, 2009Which is the most popular social networking site in India? Its not Facebook, its Orkut. Comscore in its latest report tracked the top social networking sites in India, and found that global social networking brands like Orkut, Facebook, hi5, LinkedIn and MySpace continued to gain prominence in India during the year.
They elaborate that Orkut is the most visited social networking site in India this December 2008 with more than 12.8 million visitors, an increase of 81 percent from the previous year. In fact Orkut’s audience is three times its nearest competitor Facebook.
Facebook is second most popular Indian social networking site with 4 million visitors, up 150 percent versus year ago. The third most popular social networking site is … surprise … Bharatstudent, with 3.3 million visitors (up 88 percent) followed by hi5 with 2 million visitors (up 182 percent).
Other popular networking sites in India featured in the list in descending order are ibibo, Myspace, LinkedIn, PerfSpot, BigAdda and Fropper. Now you have more sites to check out and track your friends.
I remember an earlier article tracking the most popular social networks around the world, which suggested that LinkedIn might be the most popular social network in India, but watchful QOT readers Quakeboy and Rajesh had commented even then that Orkut was the most popular one!
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I was not aware of Bharat student…
Will have a look there…
thanks for the info..
the same here as well…well its pretty nice network..
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Add yoyoinda to the list , it is a social new networking site and community platform
Orkut Rockzzzzzzzz…..Its d best…:)
Orkut is the Best. But it is now adding more features that really making it more popular.
Thank You :)
Orkut is the best and is more user friendly
i think http://mextena.com stands in front of facebook after orkut.
vbharat is up coming social networking site with many tools to stay connected with friends and family, and colleagues.
great networking site list. i didn’t know most of them before.
orkut is best
Good social networking sites list and good statistics.
Should definitely be added to favourites.
good stats.
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Thanks for the list, You can also add http://Ioch.org (Valid PR 4) social networking site that share & deliver News & enable user to publish & share their articles with other users.
Very very good list of social networking sites. Probably the best so far i have seen on the internet.
Thank you so much
Thoug orkut remains the most popular social networking site for youngesters in india. But facebook is catching up and the difference is decreasing at a very fast rate.And linkedin is no way popular in india.Not more than 2% of the people usin social networking site wouls b using linkedin
http://www.community.indiaonapage.com/ is also a cool social networking website.
I think now a days many of the social medium websites are concentrating on online reality shows and i came across these websites like ibibo.com, click2fame.com and desitara.com i hope most of the ppl will get best out of it and achieve their ultimate goal.
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Hi orkut is widely used & itz the same case for Facebook. i found a new & trendy site recently.. here is the link for fellows who wish to socialize with indians (mainly nri)
http://www.apnacafe.com/
great information