Facebook number 1 Social Networking Site in India

Google Trend in a comparison between Orkut and Facebook shows that Facebook has a leading edge when it comes to Social Networking Sites in India.

comScore, a Palo Alto based company, on their press release say:

Facebook.com posted, an especially strong month in July, growing 12 percent versus June, to capture the top spot in the category with 20.9 million visitors. Orkut ranked second with 19.9 million visitors (up 16 percent vs. year ago), followed by BharatStudent.com with 4.4 million visitors (up 3 percent). Twitter.com had the highest rate of growth among the top five social networking sites, increasing 239 percent to 3.3 million visitors. Yahoo! owned two of the top ten social networking sites: Yahoo! Pulse (3.5 million visitors) and Yahoo! Buzz (1.8 million visitors).

Top Social Networking Sites in India
July 2010 vs. July 2009
Total India – Age 15+, Home & Work Locations*
Source: comScore Media Metrix India Total Unique Visitors (000) Jul-2009 Jul-2010 % Change Total Internet : Total Audience 35,028 39,562 13 Social Networking 23,255 33,158 43 Facebook.com 7,472 20,873 179 Orkut 17,069 19,871 16 Bharatstudent.com 4,292 4,432 3 Yahoo! Pulse N/A 3,507 N/A Twitter.com 984 3,341 239 LinkedIn.com N/A 3,267 N/A Zedge.net 1,767 3,206 81 Ibibo.com 1,562 2,960 89 Yahoo! Buzz 542 1,807 233 Shtyle.fm 407 1,550 281

 

Though Twitter has the highest growth rate i.e. 239% but it’s still far behind from Facebook and Orkut. If these statistics are to be believed then Twitter will become Number 1 Social Networking Site in India much sooner than expected.