Top 20 Social Network Sites

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Among the 1,542,612 English-language pages of Wikipedia is a list of "notable social networking sites." Usefully, this list includes the most recent published data for the number of registered users in each network.

Just for fun, I sorted the list by size. Here, in descending order, are the top 20 social networking sites based on this data:

1. MySpace [130,000,000]

2. Hi5 [50,000,000]

3. Xanga [40,000,000]

4. Classmates.com [40,000,000]

5. Orkut [33,729,146]

6. Windows Live Spaces [30,000,000]

7. Friendster [29,100,000]

8. Reunion.com [25,000,000]

9. Bebo [22,000,000]

10. BlackPlanet.com [18,000,000]

11. Cyworld [15,000,000]

12. Facebook [12,000,000]

13. LiveJournal [10,921,263]

14. Piczo [10,000,000]

15. LinkedIn [8,500,000]

16. WAYN [7,000,000]

17. Care2 [6,600,000]

18. Faceparty [5,900,000]

19. Mixi [5,000,000]

20. Gaia Online [5,000,000]

The full list of 76 sites is here.  I have no idea how accurate the data is -- most of it is self-reported -- but if you're looking to anatomize social networking sites to come up with ideas for your own community or network, this list isn't a bad place to start.

Message Edited by JoeCo on 12-21-2006 07:53 AM

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Interesting rating. I had a different idea of such sites popularity. Probably because i use some of them and dislike others.

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[#3]

i thought ps4insider had a larger one?

[#4]

The Facebook number seems way low, I thought they had over 100 million users.

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Keith, I think those numbers are from 2006.