A keen eye towards 3 Most popular Social Networks on Planet

This post is basically an analysis of top 3 social networks of the Planet. Facebook,Twitter and LinkedIn. Everyone knows that all these 3 were launched in and after 2003. But in the meantime they have grown to one of the most popular sites of the web. These sites can be an inspiration for anyone who is trying to come up with any of online startup. After a huge research we got something, which can be damn interesting for the visitors. We have tried our level best to make this post interesting by gathering a lot of data from different sources (Online and Offline).

Facebook: It was not much ago when facebook was started by mark zukerberg and one of his Room mate in Hostel. They would haven’t thought that the name Facebook will be their identity in no time.As With more den half a billion users, Facebook is ruling the Social network market Currently. Soon after start the other partner left zukerberg and till now, Mark is the only guy behind this huge success of Facebook. Recently he was declared world’s youngest Self made Billionaire. And currently facebook.com is the second most visited URL all over the web..

Twitter: In march 2006, it was started by Jack Dorsey. and with its unique features, it gained worldwide popularity in no time. It became the only place for the celebrities to join. As they need not to do a lot here. Just post the status. Unlike in facebook and orkut, The need not to accept or reject lots of friend requests everyday. As anyone can come and simply follow you over twitter. Twitter.com is 10th most visited URL on the web currently .Till earlier 2010, Twitter was working like a non commercial unit, i.e. there was not any source for twitter to make money. As the website was not monetized, but later with a feature called twitter trends, The officials started making money with it and its really a great success now. With a really different way of advertising, the users liked it as it does not disturb their personal profile settings and look.

LinkedIn:- World’s largest Career networking Portal was founded by Reid Hoffman in July 2003. It has a different motive for the users who wish to keep their professional lives separate from private antics they may share at Facebook or at any other social networking site. LinkedIn.com is 22nd most visited URL over the web.

New members and updates Regularly:-

According to the reports by comScore Inc. Facebook gets 10 new profiles every second, while twitter manages to get 4 new accounts every second and LinkedIn has 1 member every second. In total Facebook has crossed a number of 600 million, twitter has 175 million registered Global users and LinkedIn has managed to register 85 million users till now. Discussing about the Updates Facebook gets 700 posts updates every second while twitter manages to get 600 updates every second. In the stats of per second updates by twitter, it also includes re-tweets, Links shared and other third party stuff. But facebook gets a clean 700 status updates every second.

Current Ranking and Visits

Currently Facebook is at world’s No.2 slot in Alexa Ranking, while twitter owns 10th and LinkedIn has Got 22nd Place in Alexa Ranking. Daily Visitors on Facebook is approx 5 million, Twitter has approx 2 million in terms of Daily visits and LinkedIn has approx 1 Million daily unique visits.

Current Revenue Stats:-

Like the other 2 things discussed above, In revenue stats too facebook holds 1st slot. Facebook’s estimated revenue in 2010 is US $1000 Million while twitter has estimated a total of 200 million US $ and LinkedIn hopes to have US $ 30 million as revenue in this financial year.

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