Social Networking Growth In India

India has become 7th top social networking markets worldwide as per the latest numbers of Comscore. In July 2010, 33.15 million unique visitors made India one of the three fastest growing markets with 43% increase since last year. United States of America retain number one position with 945 million visitors. China, Germany, Russian Federation Brazil and UK are also ahead of India. South Korea with an increase of 57% is fastest growing market currently on number ten with 24.9 million unique visitors.

ComScore also revelead that for the first time, Facebook has takenover number one spot from Orkut in India with 20.8 million unique visitors logging to Facebook viz a viz 19.87 million visitors to Orkut. With 179% increase in traffic, facebook.com has been at number two in terms of annual growth. Twitter.com is obviously the fastest growing social networking site in India with 239% increase in last year. Though it is still at 5th place below, bharatstudent.com and yahoo! Pulse. Traffic on Orkut also grew 16% since last year.