Facebook, VKontakte world’s top mobile social networks

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Facebook, VKontakte world’s top mobile social networks

Fast facts

• Facebook and VKontakte are the most visited social networks for Opera Mini users according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web, published today. Unique Opera Mini users of Facebook grew more than 693% in 2008. Owing to the popularity of Opera Mini in Russian-speaking countries, VKontakte is the most popular social network. Usage of the site grew almost 910% in 2008. The full report is available from http://www.opera.com/smw.
• Opera Mini users viewed more than than 6.4 billion pages in December. Since November, page views have gone up 13.0%.
• Opera Mini users generated more than 93.8 million MB of data for operators worldwide. Since November, the data consumed went up by 13.2%. Data in Opera Mini is compressed 90% on average. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 938 million MB of data in December.
• NOTE: In November, during a regular verification of our Opera Mini statistics, we discovered a technical issue concerning the counting of unique users. We have corrected this issue for our December numbers. Historic figures prior to October 2008 are estimates. We will update the charts as we correct the data set. This affects the total number of unique users, although estimated growth rates, page views, data transfers are accurate. Indeed, page views have increased to almost 360 pages per user per month.

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Report findings

Opera’s first State of the Mobile Web examined social networks. In this month’s report, Opera returns to review the top social networks in key countries.

Globally the top 10 social networks for Opera Mini users are (ranked by unique users):

1. vkontakte.ru — 909.17% growth in 2008
2. facebook.com — 693.11% growth in 2008
3. friendster.com — 670.13% growth in 2008
4. orkut.com — 296.78% growth in 2008
5. odnoklassniki.ru — 545.40% growth in 2008
6. peperonity.com — 396.65% growth in 2008
7. hi5.com — 372.60% growth in 2008
8. myspace.com — 618.42% growth in 2008
9. mamba.ru — 1055.51% growth in 2008
10. mocospace.com — 834.89% growth in 2008

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