Above is a gorgeous-looking world map of social network designed by RiaNovosti. What captured your attention? Besides Facebook’s 600 million strong users, many are probably curious what Qzone is. Here’s the answer: Qzone is a social networking site formed by Chinese Internet giant, Tencent. It isn’t clear how the 480 million figure came about but from what I understand, there are more than 600 million QQ instant-messaging users. The 600 million user base was reported by Tencent about 6 months ago. It’s probably more now.
Using the same QQ account, users are able to log on to Qzone too. Tencent’s system is similar to Google’s whereby one account can lead a user to plenty of services such as music, email, games and ecommerce. With that in mind, 480 million user base for Qzone seems fair and attainable.
I think cyworld is much more popular in S.Korea than FaceBook, contrary to what’s indicated on the map.
Agree that cyworld is huge in S Korea. Thanks!
But the map didn’t state S. Korean, though : |
Japan does not have two bigger social networks than Mixi.
Hi Akky san. Thanks for the comments. Care to elaborate what you mean please?
oops. fixed my mistake and added a link to the info. thanks.
interesting
thanks, Akky!
yeah, they didn’t specifically mentioned that, but I inferred it from the way it was colored. dark blue = facebook.
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