Facebook, vKontakte most popular mobile social network

Posted on Saturday, January 24 2009 @ 4:00 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Opera Software has released their latest report about the state of the mobile web, you can read it in full over here. The Norwegian browser maker says Opera Mini users viewed more than 6.4 billion pages in December, a 13 percent increase over November. The total bandwidth used by Opera Mini users in December was more than 93.8 million megabytes, up 13.2 percent month-over-month. Data in Opera Mini is compressed 90% on average. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 938 million MB of data in December.

Here's a look at the growth of the most popular mobile social networks in the world:
  • vkontakte.ru - 909.17% growth in 2008
  • facebook.com - 693.11% growth in 2008
  • friendster.com - 670.13% growth in 2008
  • orkut.com - 296.78% growth in 2008
  • odnoklassniki.ru - 545.40% growth in 2008
  • peperonity.com - 396.65% growth in 2008
  • hi5.com - 372.60% growth in 2008
  • myspace.com - 618.42% growth in 2008
  • mamba.ru - 1055.51% growth in 2008
  • mocospace.com - 834.89% growth in 2008


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    Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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