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Facebook took the No. 1 spot among social networking sites in India leaving behind Orkut for the first time in July 2010. In July 2009 Orkut was No. 1 with the 17 million users and has grown merely by 16% to 19.8 million in July 2010. In the same time Facebook which was at 7.5 million in July 2009 has rose to 20.9 million users, a very strong growth of 179%.
Orkut (16%) and Bharatstudent.com (3%) has reported the slowest growth of all even though the social networking phenomenon continues to rise world wide at the rate on 25% and Indian social networking audience Soars 43% in Past Year. Orkut was way ahead of facebook last year but failed to make innovative changes and thus lagged behind facebook by a considerable margin this year. Other major Indian players are also striving hard to make an impact in the Indian market as they are getting stiff resistance from facebook alone.
Social networking worldwide visitors have grown over 23% due to strong growth in markets like India, South Korea, Brazil etc. India is now 7th largest market in the world and will cross UK soon to become the 6th biggest player.
Major social networking sites in India are:
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Facebook
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Orkut
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Bharatstudent.com
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Yahoo! Pulse
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Twitter.com
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LinkedIn.com
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Zedge.net
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Ibibo.com
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Yahoo! Buzz
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Shtyle.fm
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