Facebook.com has overtaken Orkut.com and become the number one social networking site in India.
According to the latest figures released by comScore.com on Wednesday, Facebook.com set up a scorching pace through 2009. Its unique user base soared from 7.47 million in July 2009 to 20.87 million in July 2010 – a stunning growth of 179%.
Against this, Orkut.com could register a growth of 16% — from 17.06 million to 19.87 million during the same period.
BharatStudent.com with 4.4 million visitors climbed the podium by notching the third spot.
Twitter.com, which was the fifth most popular social networking site, recorded an astonishing growth of 239%.
Two Yahoo! properties — Yahoo! Pulse (3.5 million visitors) and Yahoo! Buzz (1.8 million visitors) — also made the top ten.
More than 33 million Internet users — age 15 and older in India — visited social networking sites in July, representing 84 percent of the total Internet audience, comScore.com stated in its press release.
*Excludes visitation from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
Source: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/8/Facebook_Captures_Top_Spot_among_Social_Networking_Sites_in_India
