I was just reading an interesting news-story, published in today’s edition of Economic times. It compares Facebook & Orkut in India. The story which quotes data from Vizisense.com, predicts that inside 7 months Facebook should be able to overtake Orkut.
There was a time, when Orkut was a dominating force in India. If you trackback to 2005-2006, you hadn’t even heard about Facebook.
The article rightly compares the Orkut > Facebook transition to Hotmail > Gmail’s. Although it emphasizes Orkut’s rapid decline in India some of the comparison parameters are quite interesting:
What are your thoughts on Facebook’s phenomenal growth in India?
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about this? suppose you composed a catchier title?
I ain’t suggesting your content isn’t good, but
suppose you added a title that makes people desire
more? I mean Facebook will surge ahead in India | is a little vanilla.
You ought to peek at Yahoo’s front page and watch how they write article titles to get
viewers interested. You might try adding a video or a pic or two to grab readers
excited about what you’ve written. Just my opinion, it might make
your website a little livelier.
The growth rate of Facebook compared to Orkut is phenomenal. Today, more number of Indian users spend their time on facebook rather on Orkut.
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