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August 13 news, although Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Orkut and Friendster and other social networking sites are established in the United States, the social network is a global phenomena. New statistical data by research institutions ComScore shows that the webs that similar to the Facebook is growing rapidly all over the world, although the growth rate slowed down in their own countries.
Earlier this week two, the performance of the company Pingdom released from the Google “Insights for Search” service to extract the figures. These figures show that different social network in the world have different levels of “interest.” ComScore also published this week of some of the figures shows that the social network sites are increasingly becoming the global nature of the site, sometimes even more than previously expected.
ComScore’s figures show that the social network sites in North America may be close to the peak. The United States and Canada and the social networking site in June 2007 compared with an increase of only 9 percent. However, the growth rate in Asia is 23%, Latin America, the growth rate of 33 percent, the European growth rate of 35 percent. Middle East and Africa region grew by 66 percent. ComScore said that the global growth of Internet users 11 percent. This means that North America is the world social network sites, Internet users growth rate did not exceed the growth rate of only areas.
Is the fastest growing Facebook site, site user visits increased by 153 percent. Most growth comes from international regions, the growth rate is expected in the United States is 38 percent. San Francisco, the establishment of the Hi5 site in Latin America have great market share, growth of 100%. Another area of the San Francisco social networking site Friendster growth rate of 50 percent, the Asian users of the renewed interest in promoting the growth is a factor. Google’s Orkut site’s growth rate of 41 percent. AOL’s Bebo site’s growth rate of 32 percent. French social networking site Skyrock growth rate of 19 percent.
ComScore said that News Corp’s MySpace is still the largest social networking site in America, but it’s growth in the international market is not very good. MySpace site users increased by only 3%.