According to Alexa (which isn’t the most accurate thing in our planet :-), Orkut users are mainly Brazilian, leading with 71% share!!!, India with 13.2% in the honorable 2nd place, US goes 3rd with 3.3% and taking the 4th place is Pakistan (?) with only 2%…
I was really relieved to see that according to Google fight (which is the 2nd most accurate thing in our planet after alexa :-) Brazilian still like Football more than Orkut.
Loren Baker tried to explain the Orkut phenomena with: “Orkut sounds like Yakult or “iogurte” (yogurt)… Everyone drinks it in Brazil when they’re kids…” a.k.a. “Are you stupid?” - one of the amusing comments below his post…
Google’s “Black Sheep”:
- According to Kasie Hunt, USA TODAY: “Osama bin Laden fan clubs build online communities using Orkut” (!!!)
- Brazil Fed Up With Orkut (…)
- Police planning to ban Orkut in India (a.k.a. honorable 2nd place with 13.2%)
- Believe me there is more… (just google it and you will see :-)
So Google’s 3-year-old social network Orkut isn’t behaving according to the Google family expectation a.k.a. “why can’t you be more like your big sister Gmail?!”
Who knows… Maybe the new SocialStreem “treatment” (& Blogger integration) will help Orkut to grow-up and maybe it will only help it to grow-up in Brazil…
