You are reading the list of top 15 social networking sites ranked by their Worldwide Alexa Rank
This list do not includes video sharing sites, Chinese-only social networks and dating sites.
1. Facebook | Alexa World ranking: 2 | Estimated members: 1 billion
It is the best known social network, it is also the second place of the most visited sites in the world according to Alexa
In some countries (Algeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Argentina, Egypt, Pakistan, Malaysia, Manila, Nigeria, Colombia, Greece and Turkey) Facebook proves to be the most visited site, surpassing Google, Yahoo and YouTube
Facebook was launched on 2004 but the domain was registered by someone else back in 1997.
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2. Twitter | Alexa World ranking: 10 | Estimated members: over 500 million
It’s the second at our chart about top social networking sites
Do you know that the domain twitter.com was recorded over 6 years before the birth of Twitter Inc.?
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3. Linkedin | Alexa World ranking: 14 | Estimated members: 200 million
It is the most visited business related social networking website, it’s also in the top20 most visited website in the world according to Alexa Ranking.
It ranks 12th in the world, and it’s on top10 in several countries (Netherlands,Ireland,India,Denmark,South Africa,Pakistan,Belgium,Israel )
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4. VK | Alexa World ranking: 25 | Estimated members: Over 190 million
VK (previously labeled as VKontakte) is a Russian social network.
It was launched on Semptember 2006 at the same time when Facebook was officially opened to all persons over 13 years.
It gained popularity through the success in the Soviet countries, where VK is the number one social network.
According to Alexa, VK is the third most visited site in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, preceded only by Google and Yandex (the most popular search engine in Russia).
After a year in which the registration was by invitation only, VK reopens to all in February 2012, registering a rise that led it to compete with the currently most popular social networks.VK is available in 70 different languages.
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5. Pinterest | Alexa World ranking: 35 | Estimated members: Over 10 million
It is a brand new social networking sites. Although it is a social network with membership based on invitations, Pinterest is the rising star of 2012 and it is already in the Top20 in USA.
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6. GooglePlus | Estimated members: 500 million
Being a sub domain of Google, it is difficult to do a traffic analysis with traditional indicators (Alexa, Quantcast, Compete) but we can not ignore it.
It had an explosive growth during October 2011.
If you are a user of Google+, you might want to know that you’re also a member of Orkut, the old social network owned by Google.
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7. LiveJournal | Alexa World ranking: 127 | Estimated members: Over 37 Million
LJ is a social network owned by SUP Media where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary – a wide variety of political pundits also use the service for political commentary, particularly in Russia, where it partners with the politically-independent online newspaper Gazeta.ru (also owned by parent company SUP Media). As with many other social networks, a wide variety of public figures use the network. However, LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community.
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8. DeviantArt | Alexa World ranking: 138 | Estimated members: 19 million
Its name is commonly abbreviated as dA is an online community showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others. deviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States.
deviantArt aims to provide a platform for any artist to exhibit and discuss works. Works are organized in a comprehensive category structure, including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, skins for applications, operating system customization utilities and others, along with extensive downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography. Additional utilities include journals, polls, groups and portfolios.
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9. Badoo | Alexa World ranking: 140 | Estimated members: over 155 million
It is a another famous social network site. its headquarters is in London, but is run by a Cypriot society.
Its founder is a Russian entrepreneur called Andrey Andreev.
The Economist, in September this year, wrote an article pointing out that Badoo has all it takes to become a top company.
Badoo is popular mainly in Italy, Spain, France and South America and it gains a spot in the top social networking sites.
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10. MySpace | Alexa World ranking: 214 | Estimated members: 25 million
It is an aged social network that still ranks well, even if their earnings drops and News Corp. sold it.
Several years ago it was a leader, now it’s dropped out of top 5 social networking sites.
Like Facebook also generates revenue through advertising, which is easily optimized thanks to the information that users write themselves
Justin Timberlake in one of main investors in Myspace
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11. Tagged | Alexa World ranking: 284 | Estimated members: over 300 million
It is a top social network website founded in 2004.The headquarters of Tagged is established in San Francisco, California.
It has all the standard functions available in popular social networks like Facebook.
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12. XING | Alexa World ranking: 334 | Estimated members: 12 million
It is a social software platform to create a small-world network for professionals.
It is very popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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13. Hi5 | Alexa World ranking: 756 | Estimated members: not available
It is a social networking website founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi.
Like Tagged, Hi5 headquarters is established in San Francisco.
It is available in over 50 languages.
hi5 has many features common to social networking sites, such as friend networks, photo sharing, user groups and status updates
Due to hi5’s shift in focus to social gaming, com Score reclassified hi5 as an online gaming site in early 2011. According to com Score, hi5 ranked as a the 6th most trafficked online gaming site.
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14. Orkut | Alexa World ranking: 835 | Estimated members: over 66 million
It is a social network owned by Google Inc and its creator, named Orkut Büyükkökten, is an employee of Google.
Orkut is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil. Orkut website is translated in 48 languages.
If you have a Google+ profile than you have also an Orkut profile and you can connect and synchronize Google+ post to Orkut.
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15. CafeMom | Alexa World ranking: 1590 | Estimated members: not available
It is an ad-supported social networking site which is specifically targeted at mothers and mothers to be.
It was founded in 2006 by Andrew Shue and Michael Sanchez.
Within one year of its launch, CafeMom became the most trafficked website for women (by page views) on the Internet, according to comScore.
CafeMom gets more than 8 million unique visitors a month, accounting for over 140 million page views.Based in New York City, the company has about 110 employees.
CafeMom is owned by privately held CMI Marketing.
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