Voyage of Social Media from Classmates.com to Google+
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 14 September 2011, 00:15 IST
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3. LinkedIn
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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 22 March 2011, LinkedIn reports more than 120 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Quantcast reports that Linkedin has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally. In June 2011, LinkedIn has 33.9 million unique visitors, up 63 percent from a year earlier and surpassed MySpace. With 3 million users, India has the fastest-growing network of users as of 2009. The Netherlands has the highest adoption rate per capita outside the US at 30%. LinkedIn recently reached 4 million users in UK. According to Alexa, LinkedIn is the 10th most visited website in Pakistan. As of March 2011 the service had 44 million users in the U.S. and 56 million outside. 4. Myspace
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Myspace mainly targeting musicians and music lover became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006, a position that it held throughout 2007 until 2008. However, by April 2008, according to comscore, Myspace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, based on monthly unique visitors. Since then MySpace has declined steadily inspite of several drastic redesigns. Quantcast estimates MySpace's monthly U.S. unique visitors at 19.7 million as of May 2011. The site ranking of Myspace as of July 2011 was 85, as opposed to the number 2 position held by Facebook. On April 19, 2008, Facebook overtook Myspace in the Alexa rankings. Since then, Myspace has been in a continuing loss of membership.