Top Social Networks as Countries

MySpace has the most registered users, reporting to have just 50 million less registered users than entire population of the United States at around 250m. Facebook has 175m registered users, nearly as many people as Brazil (190m). Windows Live Spaces has slightly less registered users than the population of Japan at 120m. Habbo.com has more registered users than Mexico has people. Friendster has 90m making it comparable to the number of people in the Philippines. hi5 has 80m making it the Vietnam of the social web. Tagged.com’s 70m makes it Iran. Google’s Okurt.com has nearly as many uses as the DRC has people at 62m. LinkedIn has 35m user profiles, putting it around the population of Kenya. Last.fm hovers around Romania’s size. After massive growth this year Twitter.com is close to Switzerland’s size.

This list is pure fun and mostly useless. The numbers used may also be out of date, most of them came from this Wikipedia entry in comparison to this one, except Twitter which I know has about 6 or 7 million users now from recent coverage. Also, keep in mind that these numbers don’t account for multiple profiles, spam accounts, disabled accounts or group accounts which could skew them a great deal. A clear example is MySpace versus Facebook. MySpace has the most registered users but was recently outpaced by Facebook in the number of unique visitors monthly. This is actually very telling. Translation: MySpace is hemorrhaging actual users while Facebook is picking them up as fast, if not faster. Also, these numbers don’t reflect user engagement. MySpace has growing user engagement (how long people stay on the site and what they do while there) meaning the people who are still using the site are using it A LOT.