And since VK looks and operates a lot like Facebook, with profiles, messages, photo sharing and even a "Like" button, users have little reason to migrate.
Odnoklassniki - 45 million users VK isn't the only competition Facebook faces in the Russian territories. Odnoklassniki " Classmates" in Russian , is also among the top five social networks. Designed to reunite school chums and old friends, Odnoklassniki gets its traffic mostly from to year-olds with kids and graduate degrees.
It's also is the 7th most-visited website in Russian, 60th worldwide, according to Alexa, and a two-time winner of the Runet Prize, a mass-media award from the Russian government.
Odnoklassniki's focus is largely on sharing photographs, and allows users to interact by rating those photos. Cloob - 1 million users Though its user base is comparatively minute, Cloob is the top social network in Iran, where its primary users are men over Cloob is one of several social networks that emerged after the Iranian government blocked the former top network in that country, Orkut yes, Orkut , along with Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.
Cloob states on its site that it operates within the laws of the Iranian government. It is invitation-only and offers many social media features found elsewhere, including email, communities, photo sharing, news sharing, classifieds and resumes. Qzone, V Kontakte, Odnoklassniki and Cloob aren't the only social networks that challenge Facebook's hegemony. We talked about Twitter earlier, and there's also a little thing called Pinterest, which has about 25 million users.
Earlier this week, we learned from Google Trends that "Tumblr" — the short-form blogging platform — recently surpassed "blog" in Google searches. Even though it often feels like it's all about Facebook, there's lots more going on out there in the social media eco-system. Like, comment and repost sharing model became mature and catered to the emerging micro-blogging need. In , Qzone users hit million. In , Qzone users reached million and it transferred to an open platform.
Before, the crew tried some small games to test the Qzone open platform. It was not until the popular game QQ farm, that sped up Qzone's transformation to open platform. When Tencent announced its open platforms, Qzone had formed its own operating model. Since then, Qzone crew was in charge of Tencent open platforms design, QQ connection was also created by them. QQ was once the biggest traffic entrance and Qzone was the biggest traffic distribution platform.
Tencent saw its first decline in profit since Q3 China social media advertising and marketing market reached 7. The number of people in China using social networking and communication sites or apps rose modestly in the first half of , with The total number of monthly active users on WeChat reached million, an increase of QQ MAUs dropped 3.
The proportion of lifestyle content sharing from mobile apps in China kept increasing in the twelve months ending in March while games and shopping categories shrank. It has spread all around the globe and there is nothing that can stop it… Except for the Great Wall of China, which in this case can be easily re-named to the Great Firewall of China.
After Facebook was banned within the online space in the Asian country back in , many local businesses began taking in the empty slot for a social network. Qzone also called just QQ was one of them. Unlike the others, Qzone provides its users with a variety of possibilities when it comes to personalization of the way your words come out to the other world.
Even though QQ achieved some sizable success , at the beginning of , Tencent decided to shut down the web version of the social network and to keep only its mobile version alive. As already mentioned, Qzone was a product of the Chinese publicly owned company Tencent which is an online giant that handles various technology businesses — from mobile value-added and online advertising services to self-driving cars and artificial intelligence.
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