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Top Social Networking Sites in India
February 18th, 2009|
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Which 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..
Very Usefull Information
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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 too like orkut very much
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.
great networking site list. i didn?t know most of them before
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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Social networking sites are the next big thing in India, but the million dollar question is when will the companies actually start earning profits?? The margins will be very low until the traffic to these sites increase.
I agree with the list, but are nt we thrown here and there with so many of them ??
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
Orkut is gr88888888…..
Facebook is nothing..
everyone come to Orkut…plssss
orkut is awesome
I like orkut
But i like linked in for professional related things
Top 5 social networking sites are good sites for students. In modernworld social networking sites are really make a good tool friends gather.
Orkut is better than facebook.
Thanks for sharing your social media websites.
orkut is the best social networking site i have come across… though i have profiles in other sites also this is the best one…
thanks orkut
I think Orkut and facebook is the best.
But orkut must devlope some featurs….
I prefer facebook over orkut:)
orkut is the best social networking site i have come across… though i have profiles in other sites also this is the best one…
thanks orkut
Facebook is more logical.
I like orkut and Ibibo because in Ibibo free calls to friends option is there and we can create free blog, we can earn money, we can view our gmail/yahoo mails like so many options are there in ibibo.com
hey guys Wapr.com is the professional and business network from india. its really good.
Please list all the Indian Social networking website @ one place
orkut rocks !!! this info. was really interesting to read .. liked it !! :)
Hi,
At the outset thanks for the list. It is helpful. Just wanted to add a point here. Many of us have expressed our opinion on which site they liked and so on…but one needs to understnad that all the sites do not cater to same audience and hence should not be benchmarked togather either. LinkedIn is an excellent site for professionals and should not be pitched against Facebook/Orkut which are mainnly for fun.
Cheers….
I think this is also a great socail network with all features like fb.
Orkut is good but i think its not as useful for professional as linkedin or facebook….my first choice is linkedin.
Orkut is rockz. Facebook is 1 of the biggest booring type social community. Myspace and Linkedin also gud. I lyk Orkut and Twitter.
How about bebo?
planet 70mm is a new social networking site thats due to launch on Mar 16, 2010. I liked its concept. Lets wait and see for the layout and features.
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