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Opera is out with the December edition of their “State of the Mobile Web” report. Key findings include:
- Facebook and vKontakte are the most visited social networks for Opera Mini users. Unique Opera Mini users of Facebook grew more than 693% in 2008. As for vKontakte, thanks to the popularity of Opera Mini in Russian-speaking countries, usage of this social network grew almost 910% in 2008.
- Opera Mini users viewed more than than 6.4 billion pages in December, which is 13% more since November.
- Opera Mini users generated more than 93.8 million MB of data for operators worldwide. Since November, the data consumed went up by 13.2%.
Globally the top 10 social networks for Opera Mini users are (ranked by unique users):
- vkontakte.ru – 909.17% growth in 2008
- facebook.com – 693.11% growth in 2008
- friendster.com – 670.13% growth in 2008
- orkut.com – 296.78% growth in 2008
- odnoklassniki.ru – 545.40% growth in 2008
- peperonity.com – 396.65% growth in 2008
- hi5.com – 372.60% growth in 2008
- myspace.com – 618.42% growth in 2008
- mamba.ru – 1055.51% growth in 2008
- mocospace.com – 834.89% growth in 2008
As for the country-by-country usage, it’s worth noting that in the United States, Facebook edged out MySpace with unique users growing 1632%, while MySpace user growth was almost 52%. Similarly, in the United Kingdom, Facebook gained 536% to become the most visited social network for Opera Mini users. South Africa also had Facebook as its top social network. Outside of the anglophone world, Facebook had impressive performance in Egypt as usage jumped more than 3400%.
In Germany, however, MySpace was the strongest of all the social networks, growing 492% during last year.
As for other social networking services, Orkut was the most popular in India and Brazil, while Nasza-klasa was the most popular in Poland.
As always, Opera’s full report is available from their website.
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
