[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

[Rand McRanderson]

Orkut used to dominate outside US and Europe. Then Google took over,
neglected it and Facebook moved in. Classic big company takes small company
and forgets about it
On Mar 17, 2013 11:39 AM, "Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton" <
rodrigo.argenton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Facebook here is more used than Google and Orkut, but they are well used
> to, so... we really don't know why :)
>
>
> On 17 March 2013 05:29, James Alexander <jamesofur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Balázs Viczián <
> > balazs.viczian at wikimedia.hu> wrote:
> >
> > > the favorit social media site in Brazil is Orkut. Far far more popular
> > than
> > > facebook. If you wish to have a strong social media presence there,
> > you'll
> > > have to be present on that.
> > >
> > > cheers, Balázs
> >
> >
> >
> >  Tom or someone else from Brazi would know better then me I'm sure but
> that
> > doesn't seem to have been true since 2011 (
> >
> >
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/ricardogeromel/2011/09/14/facebook-surpasses-orkut-owned-by-google-in-numbers-of-users-in-brazil/
> > )
> > . Looking at the numbers now (
> > http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/BR) looks like FB is the #1 site
> > now (of course, it IS Alexa ;) ).
> >
> > James
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