Facebook making big gains in Brazil, India
Diego Remus on July 07, 2009
The number of Facebook users has been growing rapidly in Brazil, and in particular in India. Orkut is still the dominant social network, but the rate of growth is slowing. That said, the number of Orkut users is still millions ahead of Facebook or MySpace.
Orkut has more than 22 million users just in Brazil (according to statistics cited in a recent article in MediaPost, based on data from ComScore), while Facebook has just over 1 million, half of those added in 2009. Other sources suggest Orkut’s userbase in Brazil could be as high as 37 million. In India, Facebook has 3.2 million users and Orkut, 14.5 million. Read more…
