Web Trends & Strategies

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

No, Facebook is not going in the third place, but is now coming first, as a Media Trend report seems to indicate.

It was sort of inevitable given Facebook’s monster growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone: Facebook officially caught up to MySpace in terms of unique monthly worldwide visitors, according to data released by Comscore and shown above. Both services are attracting around 115 million people to their respective sites each month.

see the original new here in TechCrunch.