Social network popularity around the world
In a blog posting, a company doing some website monitoring, has looked at 12 of the top social networks to answer a simple, but highly interesting question: Where are they the most popular?
The social networks they included in this survey were MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Friendster, LinkedIn, Orkut, Last.fm, LiveJournal, Xanga, Bebo, Imeem and Twitter.
The results include a number of maps showing the level of adoption of different services around de world.
The conclusion:
As we already mentioned, this survey clearly shows that social networks are truly global affairs. It also shows that the geographic focus varies greatly between different social networks.
Read the post at: Social network popularity around the world; Pingdom AB, August 12, 2008
