Orkut beats Google+
By Techgirl

So you thought Google’s social networking website Orkut was dead everywhere except for Brazil and India.  Dying in India but not dead yet.  Orkut was the social networking King in India till it was sidelined by Facebook India.

Alleyinsider has a report on how Google+, after building up a membership of 20 million in less than a month, has actually seen a traffic reduction from USA.  Google+ draws most of its membership from USA followed by India.

Ironically, Google’s Orkut in USA is still more popular than Google+ in USA.  According to the same report, Google+ was only the number 20 social networking Web site in the United States, with 1.79 million visits last week. That's actually down 3% from last week, when Google+ ranked number 19.

And Orkut USA beat Google+ USA by getting 2.37 million US visitors.

And I thought no one in USA used Orkut!

Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog techgirltalk.blogspot.com.  Techgirl has been ejected from Twitter for satirizing an Indian Minister.  Her satire blog has links to her Times of India interview detailing her being kicked out of Twitter, and then being invited back.