Present popular social networks (1. 3. 2011):
Name |
URL |
Description |
Users |
www.facebook.com |
general |
600 million |
|
twitter.com |
General, Micro-blogging |
190 million |
|
www.linkedin.com |
Business and professional networking |
90 million |
|
flickr |
www.flickr.com |
photo sharing, commenting, worldwide |
35 million |
myspace |
www.myspace.com |
general |
50 million |
hi5 |
hi5.com |
General. Popular in India, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Portugal and Latin America. |
80 million |
Vkontakte |
vkontakte.ru |
Social Network for Russian-speaking world |
135 million |
Orkut |
www.orkut.com |
General, Popular in India and Brazil |
100 million |
Mixi |
mixi.jp |
Japanese |
25 million |
Odnoklassniki |
www.odnoklassniki.ru |
Connect with old classmates. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics |
45 million |
Tagged |
www.tagged.com |
general |
100 million |
Kaixin001 |
www.kaixin001.com |
General, In Simplified Chinese, caters for mainland China users |
50 million |
SkyRock |
www.skyrock.com |
Social Network in French-speaking world |
25 million |
deviantART |
www.deviantart.com |
Art community |
15 million |
netlog |
www.netlog.be |
General. Popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab World and Canada's Québec province |
70 million |
- Rian's World map of social networks (March, 2011)
- Social bakers - various statistics regarding social networks
- Nice Blog article on How Social Media is Transforming Government
Future of social networks (2012+?)
Name |
URL |
Description |
Users |
Diaspora |
SN with based upon rich user privacy options ("open facebook") :) |
Alpha |