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Indians are No. 2 users of world's No.1 social networking site
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010, 18:51 IST
Bangalore: Recently, India ranked as the 2nd most growth oriented country for Facebook in the World after Indonesia. India added almost a million users to facebook's growth just a shade under Indonesia. The promising fact for Facebook is that that's still less than 1 percent of India's population and given the recent exposure to over 130 million users via the Airtel deal Facebook is only going to grow from here, says a report of Inside Facebook Gold.
The fact that Facebook has recently announced its mobile versions in six major Indian languages viz. Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Telegu, Tamil and Malayalam and also plan to penetrate the Indian subcontinent in a deeper way. It is true that not all the Indians get access to broadband internet due to geographical and cost bottlenecks, but there has been an unprecedented growth in the usage of wireless ones the form of data cards and other services.
Apart from this, the country is expected to have about 260 millions mobile internet subscribers by the year 2015. All this points to a very bright future for Facebook in India.
Due to all these factors Facebook has seen a consistent growth in its market penetration in India. All in all with facebook launching its presence in India soon with 150 million dollar investment and looking to hire over 500 people it seems India could be the at the center of Facebook's overall social networking strategy in the days to come.
