You guys wont believe this: I have a hard time convincing some of my friends that facebook is having more users than orkut !!!
Why is there a confusion? It is because in India orkut is more popular than facebook. So they think that facebook is just a clone of orkut and it is less popular.
So I show them this statistics:
Facebook traffic is shown in red color(*). Orkut traffic is shown in blue (If you can find it at the bottom).
Orkut traffic reduced by 7.7% last year while faceook traffic increased by 69.5%.
So that is about popularity. The next time you have to explain this to anyone, it is better to show them this graph.
Hi Niyaz,
I am shocked..Actually I thought orkut is used by many ppl.
I have logged into facebook only once and I found it a bit complex than orkut.But this graph is telling me to try it again..
So is the case of gaming consoles. In India, PlayStation is pretty popular. But if you check the statics Nitendo Wii comes first, X-Box second and then comes the SONY’s console. Unbelievable?
I was shocked when I heard that Facebook had a page hit which was once way over our own Google!!! This new news is not so shocking when compared to that…
Faiz,
This proves another fact: Internet is in many aspects like any other market. It is location aware. You target one audience, you get that audience.
It is not like there is a facebook and everybody will start using that. Facebook did not do any marketing in India, and orkut took the market share.
In essense, even though every website is equally accessible from all parts of the world, your marketing strategy is very important in determinig the demography of your users.
Yeps, your last comment nailed it
But I still prefer Orkut to Facebook only cuz of the application noise from facebook…
you friend sent you a drink, your friend pinged/kicked/ponged/nudged/donged and did a whole lot of things to you . . . .
Orkut is like..simple, plain and usable….for now at least.
Orkut was not only popular in India.”Orkut is the most visited website in Brazil and second most visited site in India”(Wikipedia). The reason i think for orkut boom was “There was a time Google made use of AJAX and made it’s site attractive”. At that time only and only with “Google and it’s networks” and orkut(came up as a side dish) became popular. If You look at the list of Social Networking Sites in Wikipedia say 127+ sites are there. So the real competition is not between “Orkut and FaceBook”. and i don’t think i can create account in all the sites and compare.
. I think the purpose is what kind of social networking. For example for a biz guy LinkedIn is good.
And I guess facebook was the first to start isn’t it?
Wikipedia says orkut was launched on 22 January 2004 and facebook on February 2004. Pretty close though.
facebook is way to advance than orkut. facebook look is complete and orkut is #$$#$!@ (another incomplete product of google). looks like at google no body pays attention to make things better (yes there is one exception google search)
1/4th of Indian net population is engaged in orkut.!
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/orkut.com
get your facts correct!
jaggudada,
I wrote: “…in India orkut is more popular than facebook”.
I humbly request you to read the articles before commenting.
I am big fan of orkut.
but i am not using it and i have open an account in face book,
many of my friends turned form Orkut to Facebook
cause they just cannot access the orkut
in some countries like UAE orkut is band this is main reason to change orkut to face book.
i have tried facebook but it wont give me the feel of orkut.
any way if they remove the ban over orkut i will still will be with orkut
I have account in both orkut and facebook, but i think myspace is more popular than these two
Guys I am the one who became facebook addicted even after being a great great fan of orkut…U must try FACEBOOK its far better guys…BELIEVE ME…
guys one thing more to tel myspace is even bigger than both facebook and orkut
There was a time i used to get many scraps a day on orkut and now i get a scrap on very rare basis. First time when u get into facebook it seems quite complex but with the passage of time you get used to its features and functions and then you get addicted to facebook!
Well, Orkut only had won the market in some countries like brazil, india & pakistan however Facebook is the world’s third most visited website while orkut 130th! so no comparison..
I as a software developer can advice facebook is wayy wayyyy wayy more complex and stable than orkut.
Facebook,Orkut and Myspace all suck big time, full of crappy things. go for Twitter !!! short n sweet
Facebook is better than orkut but moving to facebook means leavng all ur scraps/ photos etc etc of orkut, its like changing a club… bt what about the guys with whom you did clubbing… nw if they dont move on with to the nu club u wont like it na… I am a avid orkut user, also came up with a facebook account, at the same many of my friends too…. but after the initial wow facebook feeling, the comment, quizzzes etc we found out orkut was simpler… u know in orkut we get things at one place. What happend in the end that nw I log in to facebook, bt not as alternative to orkut bt to play and compare games – like mafia, farmville etc, quizes which soon became old.