Orkut Buyukkokten( the creator of Orkut) gets $12 when a person registers to this website. He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend. He gets $8 when your friend’s friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as a friend in the resulting chain. He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you. He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut. He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list. He gets $2 when you become somebody’s fan. He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan. He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut. He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph. He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend’s scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend’s friend-list. Many Global Financial Consultants think this person might become the richest-person in the world by the end of 2009. Finally, this is the best fact. This person has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 assistants to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps a day. Orkut’s slogan is “Who do you know? Traffic of Orkut on February 10, 2011 Brazil 53.6% India 35.0% Japan 2.3% United States 1.8% Pakistan 0.7%   Other 5.2%
As of February 2011, Alexa traffic ranked Orkut 102nd in the world; the website currently has more than 100 million active users worldwide.[update]