Facebook, the fastest growing social network in India! Orkut still king!

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ViziSense, India’s first open audience measurement service that reports details of site visitor demographics and other audience characteristics, has released its report for the month of October 2009 and the findings on social networking sites can be described as “interesting” to say the least.

ViziSense claims that:

  1. Facebook.com has registered 19.35% growth in Unique Users
  2. Orkut.co.in though is still the most visited Social Network with 15.5 Million Unique Users logging in every month

If you look at the table below of the Top Social Networking Sites, you can see how facebook.com has fared in October 2009 as compared to September 2009.

Social NetworkingOctober 2009 Unique Users% Change over September 2009September 2009 Unique Users% Change over August 2009
Orkut.com15.5 Million4.0314.9 Million1.36
Facebook.com10.3 Million19.358.63 Million8.96
Bharatstudent.com2.42 Million-6.922.60 Million-11.56
Linkedin.com2.24 Million3.702.16 MillionNA
Ibibo.com1.97 Million1.031.95 Million1.56

It is clear from the tables above that Facebook is fast catching up with Orkut for the top perch on the social networking pyramid of India.

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