Hyves Leads Facebook in Dutch Social Networking Market, Facebook is ranked second
One of the countries that has been showing exceptional growth in Social Networking is the Netherlands, This category continues to advance, growing 18 percent to 11.5 million visitors in March 2011 (representing 96 percent of the online population).
However its Not Facebook that is number one in Netherlands but a local social networking site called Hyves.com , which continues to hold the top position among social networking sites in the market with more than 7.6 million visitors in March, Followed by Facebook which grew by 76 percent in the past year to nearly 6.6 million visitors.
Twitter.com and LinkedIn.com rank third and fourth, respectively, with more than 3 million visitors and each growing approximately 70 percent in the past year.
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The Netherlands also has an exceptionally high representation among social networking sites Twitter.com and Linkedin.com, ranking #1 among all countries in Internet penetration for these sites Twitter and Linkedin has a 26% penetration in Netherlands which is the highest among all countries. For Linkedin Ireland and US are the second and third biggest countries in terms of penetration.
In each case, more than one in four Dutch Internet users visits these sites during the course of the month. While the top ten countries in Linkedin penetration are either English-speaking or in Western Europe, the top countries for Twitter touch virtually every corner of the globe.
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