An updated map which was recently published by Vincenzo Cosenza illustrates the ongoing global expansion of Facebook. While it has only been eight months since he last published the “World Map Of Social Networks”, the updated map shows Facebook continuing to gain ground over local competitors abroad. While Facebook has yet to take over Brazil, the map shows Facebook overtaking Orkut in India.
The statistics are based on Alexa, a global internet traffic reporting service, and while the service has provided questionable data in the past, it’s a good overall indicator of how sites are performing. In this case it illustrates Facebook’s ongoing expansion and domination over localized competitors. Right now Facebook’s ads system suggests that Facebook has just under 10 million users in India which has a total internet population of 81 million (via Internet World Statistics).
For Facebook to win over Brazil and India will be significant as it will effectively eliminate the last places where Google-owned Orkut has served as the primary social network. You can view a comparison of Facebook’s growth since September in the chart below.
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Bad mapmaking.
Really… would it have been too hard to use the same colors from one map to the next?
Comment by Roger Fruvous — June 19, 2010 @ 6:33 am
True, u could see better which changes are…
Comment by Frano Ša&scar — June 19, 2010 @ 6:52 am
well the change in color (between before and after map) is misleading – India, Peru, Mexico, Cameroon, Thailand and Portugal are the converts ! It would be of interest to know the % change
Comment by Shikha Jain — June 19, 2010 @ 7:09 am
Technically that should be Qzone, not QQ. QQ is an IM client that is tied into Qzone for ease of use. And no, they will not switch to FB because it is nothing compared to Qzone.
Comment by Guest — June 20, 2010 @ 5:25 pm
why the change in colors? It makes it much more difficult to understand the change.
Comment by Henry Tafolla — June 20, 2010 @ 6:59 pm
Ale ki?a. Je?li obie mapki robi?a ta sama osoba no to gratulacje! Je?li jednak ró?ne osoby – powinni?cie si? zsynchronizowa?, albo chocia? po wszystkim dokona? poprawek…
Comment by Gandhi — June 24, 2010 @ 1:29 am
To Moderator: Please change " ? " to standard letters. Following: l, s, c, s, z, , s, e, c, z, c
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Comment by heera — November 24, 2011 @ 3:35 am
I like the Maps what I don't like is all my albums are attached and there are some pics I don't want showing or are non-relevant to the Map. How do I remove these pics (which I must have attached in error). My non-nerd mind tells me I have to download all my pics off facebook and only upload the onese I want showing – surely there must be a more streamlined way to do this – is there? Anyone know what I'm talking about!
Comment by Gillian — December 30, 2011 @ 2:24 pm