Facebook : is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2012, Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Twitter : is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011, generating over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.
LinkedIn : is a business-related social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of 3 November 2011, LinkedIn reports more than 135 million registered users in more than 200 countries and territories.The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish and Japanese.Quantcast reports LinkedIn has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally.
Myspace : is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake.Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors.
Friendster : a social gaming site that is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company now operates mainly from three Asian countries; namely, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore.
Twitter : is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011, generating over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.
LinkedIn : is a business-related social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of 3 November 2011, LinkedIn reports more than 135 million registered users in more than 200 countries and territories.The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish and Japanese.Quantcast reports LinkedIn has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally.
Myspace : is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake.Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors.
Friendster : a social gaming site that is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company now operates mainly from three Asian countries; namely, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore.
It was previously known as a social networking website Before the site was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts.The website was also used for discovering new events, bands, and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via their profile and their network.
Since the relaunch of Friendster as a social gaming platform in June 2011, the number of registered users has reached over 115 million.
hi5 : is a social gaming website based in San Francisco, California. The company was founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi. By 2008, comScore reported that hi5 had become the third most popular social networking site in terms of monthly unique visitors. Quantcast reports hi5 has 2.7 million monthly US visitors and 46.1 million global visitors.
Orkut : is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google Inc. The service is designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil. As of October 2011, 59.1% of orkut's users are from Brazil, followed by India with 27.1% and Japan with 6.7%.Originally hosted in California, in August 2008 Google announced that orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil.
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