More than 33 million internet users age 15 and older in India visited social networking sites in July, representing 84% of the total internet audience. India now ranks as the seventh largest market worldwide for social networking, after the U.S., China, Germany, Russian Federation, Brazil and the U.K. The total Indian social networking audience grew 43% in the past year, more than tripling the rate of growth of the total internet audience in India.
Facebook.com posted an especially strong month in July, growing 12% versus June, to capture the top spot in the category with 20.9 million visitors. Orkut ranked second with 19.9 million visitors (up 16% vs. year ago), followed by BharatStudent.com with 4.4 million visitors (up 3%). Twitter.com had the highest rate of growth among the top five social networking sites, increasing 239% to 3.3 million visitors. Yahoo! owned two of the top ten social networking sites: Yahoo! Pulse (3.5 million visitors) and Yahoo! Buzz (1.8 million visitors).
(comscore.com, August 2010)
