Pingdom Measures Social Networks' Popularity by Region

A recent survey conducted by Pingdom makes us adopt another view when evaluating social networks. Regularly, popular sites like MySpace or Twitter are measured in unique users, page views, or user registrations. This, however has changed now due to Pingdom which focused rather on how much of a proportional lock a certain social network has on the countries' Web users. For this, the monitoring firm used Google Insights for Search whose launch occurred only a few days ago.

USA was the starting pointing for Facebook, for instance, and most of the members are still US based. Yet, Google searches for the term revealed that there's more proportional "interest" in Facebook in Turkey. The list continues with Canada, followed by the UK, South Africa, and Colombia.

In MySpace case, the study showed regional interest to occupy the first place in USA with Puerto Rico, Australia, the U.K., and Malaysia completing the ranking list.

So we have to conclude that American-founded social networks are much more popular abroad than at home. Another proof of that are Hi5’s top five locations as indicated by Google Insights which are as follows: Peru, Portugal, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica.

To read the entire study by Pingdom go to the company's blog.