Comments on: Facebook getting bigger in Spanish-speaking Latin America

By: Facebook’s forthcoming iPhone app to be more like its web site; that site redesign was no coincidence » VentureBeat

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:56:01 +0000

[...] continue penetrating markets such as Latin America, where like mobile data services, the site increasingly popular. Getting web-oriented people onto mobile could also be useful if Facebook ever decides to [...]

By: ComScore: Social networks, especially Facebook, still getting big around the world » VentureBeat

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:50:03 +0000

[...] The Pingdom study finds some other interesting information out about social networks. Here’s hi5’s search popularity. Notice how the two social networks are popular in different Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America — this explains how both of them claim to be doing well in that region. [...]

By: Why Facebook is now the number one social network in the world, and why this matters » VentureBeat

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:44:44 +0000

[...] “At first we were worried about MySpace, but then we realized that people use it differently from our site,” an employee at social network Facebook told me over a year ago. What he meant is that Facebook is a place for people to put their real lives online, providing factual information about themselves and having trusted interactions with their friends. Meanwhile, rival MySpace is more of a place for people to live out their fantasy lives online, borrowing celebrity photos for their profile pictures, adding far-fetched biographical information and such — MySpace uses the term “self-expression” to describe this behavior. These cultural differences are, of course, not true across the board but are generally obvious to anyone who uses both social networks. And they’re a huge deal, even though most coverage I’ve seen doesn’t acknowledge it. Facebook’s global user numbers have boomed from around 40 million monthly unique visitors in April, 2007 to 115 million unique monthly users this past April, with 62 million new users coming from outside the US. Compare that to MySpace, which counts 73 million of its global users in the US and is now globally a close second to Facebook, having hardly grown anywhere over the past year. In fact, another traffic measurement firm, Nielsen Online, says that MySpace had 4.7 million U.S. visitors in April, down 30 percent from last year. Taking a deeper dive into Facebook’s growth in regions around the world, it’s important to note that in many places MySpace has never been dominant. For example, another social network, hi5 — which has an interface more similar to MySpace’s, has been the market leader in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries for years. And while hi5 is still growing fast, Facebook has been busy catching up to it in a matter of months, especially after Facebook released a Spanish-language version of its site in March. [...]

By: Florencia

Florencia — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:16:57 +0000

Check this study for a complete overview of Social Networks in Latin America: http://www.analytics20.org/web-analytics/white-...

By: Facebook crece en América Latina

Facebook crece en América Latina — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:36:36 +0000

[...] Unidos, los primeros países donde triunfó. Sin embargo en el resto del mundo sigue creciendo, pasando de los 70 millones de usuarios activos mensuales, según datos de la [...]