VKontakte, Facebook - the main social networks in the world

Overview of the annual growth of the mobile Internet in the Opera mobile report
Oslo, Norway - January 20, 2008
Data
VKontakte and Facebook social networks are the most visited Opera Mini users according to Opera’s mobile report published today. The number of unique users of Opera Mini Facebook has grown by 693% in 2008. Due to the huge popularity of Opera Mini in Russian-speaking countries, VKontakte is the most popular social network. The user base of the site has grown by almost 910% in 2008. The full report is available at www.opera.com/smw .

Opera Mini users viewed more than 6.4 billion pages in December. Since November, the number of pages viewed has increased by 13.0%.
Opera Mini users have used more than 93.8 million megabytes of operator traffic from around the world. Since November, the amount of traffic used has increased by 13.2%. Data in Opera Mini is compressed by an average of 90%. If data were not compressed, Opera Mini users would use 938 million megabytes of traffic in December.
Note: In November, during the scheduled verification of Opera Mini statistics, we discovered technical problems associated with counting unique users. The problem was solved before the data for December appeared. All data until October 2008 are approximate. We will update the charts as soon as we correct the data. This has affected the information on unique users, however, data on the level of growth, page views and traffic are reliable. Indeed, the number of pages viewed per user per month increased by almost 360.
results
Social networks were explored in Opera’s first mobile report. In this issue, Opera looks at the main social networks in key countries.
Around the world, the 10 major social networks for Opera Mini users are:
Website - Annual increase of unique users
vkontakte.ru 909.17%
facebook.com 693.11%
friendster.com 670.13%
orkut.com 296.78%
odnoklassniki.ru 545.40%
peperonity.com 396.65%
hi5.com 372.60%
myspace.com 618.42%
mamba.ru 1055.51%
mocospace.com 834.89%
In the US, Facebook supplanted MySpace due to an impressive annual growth, as a result of which the number of unique users increased by 1632%, while on MySpace users increased by almost 52%.
Facebook continues to grow successfully in English-speaking countries. In the UK, Facebook reached a growth of 536% and became the most visited social network among Opera Mini users. In South Africa, Facebook is also the main social network. Outside the English-speaking world, Facebook has achieved success with users in Egypt with an increase of more than 3400%.
However, all was not lost to MySpace. In Germany, MySpace is the most popular social network, growing by 492% in 2008.
As with the wired and mobile Internet, Orkut is the most popular network in India and Brazil, while Nasza-klasa is the most popular in Poland. This once again reinforces Opera’s belief that there is only a single Internet that is accessible from various devices.
Quotes
“Social networks are helping to support the development of a unified Internet,” said Jon von Tetchner, CEO of Opera Software, “despite the current economic conditions, we expect a further increase in the use of the Internet from mobile devices. More and more people want to have access to the Internet at a global level. With great potential in both developed and developing countries, we expect to see more people surfing the Internet using a mobile phone or any other device. ”
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