I fired up the laptop wanting to write a book review of Ben Mezrich’s "The Accidental Billionaires," The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, and Betrayal”, the story that inspired The Social Network Movie - and slowly started wondering about the sheer enormity of these networks. Many with millions and millions of users – all connected by friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, likes, dislikes, and on and on.
I thought instead of the book review, I’d have a quick look at the size of the more popular social network sites by the approximate number of registered users. I crunched these numbers so to compare the size of the ten most popular networks with the remaining 120 networks by size of registered users.
As we can see below the top ten sites account for some 60% (approx 1.7 Billion) of [all] registered users across 130 sites totaling almost 3 Billion users. Facebook alone has almost 0,5 Billion users.
Interestingly, The population of the world is currently about 6,896,900,000 and it is estimated that the percentage of the population in the age group of 16-64 is roughly about 64% or 4.4Billion. So almost 70% of people who [could] be using a social network are – of course this isn’t quite right as many people subscribe to a number of social network sites.
Top 10 social networks by number of registered users | Approximate Number of Registered Users | |
| Facebook | 500,000,001 | |
| Qzone | 200,000,000 | |
| Twitter | 175,000,000 | |
| Habbo | 162,000,000 | |
| Windows Live Spaces | 120,000,000 | |
| Bebo | 117,000,000 | |
| Vkontakte | 110,578,500 | |
| Myspace | 100,000,000 | |
| Orkut | 100,000,000 | |
| Tagged | 100,000,000 | |
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| Top ten social network sites by number of registered users | 1,684,578,501 | |
| Other 120 social network sites by number of registered users | 1,300,370,463 | |
| Total of top 130 social network sites by registered users | | 2,984,948,964 |
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