The popularity of Facebook across the globe is well known. Among all the developing countries it has reached maximum number of users from India by attracting more number of teenagers. According to the latest reports from ComScore, Facebook has beaten its competitors like Orkut and Yahoo and became the top social networking site in India with 20.9 million users.
Previously it was Orkut, which remained as the most popular site in India, but its now Facebook’s turn. With more number of features and sharing options than Orkut, it has attracted more number of users in less time. For the first time in July, 2011, facebook grabbed number one rank in social networking category with 20.9 million users, up 179 percent from the previous year.
The report also mentioned that there are more than 33 million Internet users in India, who visited social networking sites in the month of July, but among them most visited was Facebook making it as top one. With this, India now ranks as the seventh largest market worldwide for social networking after the US, China, Germany, Russia, Brazil and the UK. The report also mentioned that during last year growth of social networking audience is 43 percent which is triple the rate of total internet audience in India.
Followed by Facebook is Orkut ranked second with 19.9 million visitors, BharatStudent.com, Twitter, and Yahoo. Sites like Orkut, Twitter, and Yahoo used to be in the top places among the social networking sites before the advent of Facebook. But now it is ruling the networking world with a huge user base. By including more privacy options it is attracting more and more users every month/year.