Trends: Social Networking Map

There are plenty of social networking sites in market today. Many of us might be interested on which social network is popular among them to understand the trends of social networks. Just to anwser this, recently found out this good representation of the social networks seperated geographically. See below world map (static) showing the most popular social networks based on Google trends for website traffic data. Trends look like now Facebook makes it to the #1 most popularly used among others compartively. Also you can see the shift from Orkut to Facebook also catching the Indian users

Snapshot: Click on it to view the full image

As of Dec 2009,

As of June 2009,

Reference Links:

• For Static Map: http://www.vincos.it/world-map-of-social-networks/
• For Interactive Map: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/world-map-of-social-networks-dec-2-6