Orkut Vs Facebook

Jan 03 2009

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.

57 responses so far

  • Free2wheel says:

    Nah… social netwrking sucks on the whole… just call ur frenz
    only pretensious Ba*&^*(s like profiles wer they can b wat they nevr really r.

  • RG says:

    “Facebook traffic is shown in red color.”

    Do you suffer from red-green color blindness? Facebook traffic is shown in green!

  • Niyaz PK says:

    @RG,

    It is an embedded chart loaded from compete.com dynamically. Blame them for changing the colors.

  • vijay sharma says:

    Guys , we live and we will die.
    But remember , orkut and facebook will live forever :-)
    we will grow 80 yrs and then we may have to live the world.
    I guess our next generation and then the next generation will keep using orkut and facebook .

  • vijay sharma says:

    They are the one of the most visited sites over the web ,
    other than google search engine,youtube .

  • Niyaz PK says:

    @vijay sharma,

    Companies die faster than people do, especially for internet based companies, if they don’t catch up with change.

    The thing that is cool and hip today won’t be so tomorrow.

    Remember Geocities?

    Besides what was your point again?

  • samanyu says:

    you are right on one thing bro
    convincing that facebook is much better than orkut
    thats hard to do in india!

  • Vipul says:

    As far as these 2 are concerned , orkut is way better than facebook. Facebook has lots of AJAX which makes it irritating to me.
    By the way , i also tried the new orkut which is very much similar to facebook , and i didn’t like it.

    Twitter is fine, but i don’t find anything great about twitter.. you can say , its ONE SYSTEM which most of the social networking sites have..
    You just update and people follow ? I find it useless….

  • Facebook is smarter than Orkut, and its got added functionalities :D

  • sakshi says:

    http://orkutvsfacebook.blogspot.com/

    Facebook has Ranked number one whereas orkut from google is still far behind.To Know more about facts and reasons,click on Info link.

  • Ali says:

    Orkut is not good as compared to facebook…my EACH AND EVERY fiend said that also….

  • hits says:

    Its really nice. There is a good comparison also. see
    http://matpal.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/comparison-of-facebook-and-orkut/

  • Akshay says:

    Guys! Adding some junk over here, in india now facebuk as taken over orkut as the pageviews speak, facebuk has around 5,00,00000 page views daily whereas orkut has only 12,00000 bt u wont believe even my space has ripped orkut its heading with a daily pageviews of around, 87,00000, this was akshay-pro blogger, http://www.loveduniquething.blogspot.com

  • prince says:

    can any one tell wht these sites owners get????do at one time they will start charging us??

  • Kevin says:

    Orkut is better and easy then face book!!

  • khan says:

    niyazzzz…. if u connected from orkut to facebook u can check the facebook is fetching ur friends lists from orkut only… not only facebook watever social network it may be.. its jus fetching data from ur gmail account note this.. how ever east or west orkut is the best… in many countries orkut is not allowed n its completely banned.. if they allow orkut in all countries.. no one can beat orkut…. tin tin ti tin

  • Sayantan says:

    chk the current traffic at http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/IN ……facebook is leadin orkut even in india now….

  • pankaj says:

    orkut is much more better thnn face book
    bcause in face book if some 1 abuse u nd thn report face book head tht u abuse him or sum thing else
    they doesnt check tht person is teling lie or truth they just disable ur acount
    without any notice

  • vINODS says:

    Really its true….In India facebook is very less in use. even it is more secure than orkut and it is very professionally working…I also logged into facebook….