Thursday, March 17, 2011


  1. Orkut Buyukkokten( the creator of Orkut) gets $12 when a person registers to this website.
  2. He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
  3. 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.
  4. He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
  5. He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
  6. He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
  7. He gets $2 when you become somebody’s fan.
  8. He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
  9. He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
  10. He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
  11. 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.
  12. Many Global Financial Consultants think this person might become the richest-person in the world by the end of 2009.
  13. 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.
  14. Orkut’s slogan is “Who do you know?
Traffic of Orkut on February 10, 2011
Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil 53.6%
Flag of India.svg India 35.0%
Flag of Japan.svg Japan 2.3%
Flag of the United States.svg United States 1.8%
Flag of Pakistan.svg 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.
















   

Facebook Facts !!!

About Facebook  : Founded in February 2004, Face book is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers.
 Employees : 2,000+
Users : Over 500 million active (users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days)
  • 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
  • Average user has 130 friends
  • People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
 Activity:
  • There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
  • Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
  • Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
  • More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month. 
Global Reach :
  • More than 70 translations available on the site
  • About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
  • Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
Platform:

  • Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
  • People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
  • Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
  • Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
  • More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including over 80 of comScore's U.S. Top 100 websites and over half of comScore's Global Top 100 websites
Mobile:
  • There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
  • People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
  • There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products