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Sort by Registered Users. You don't even need the Chinese language site (QZone).

Habbo + MySpace + Bebo + Orkut + Friendster + Hi5 = 679 million. Assuming 50% cross-over (which is a very high estimate), that means 340 million unique users, for just six social networks.

And that is nothing to sneeze at.

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I was mistaken.

The sites I hadn't heard of aren't Chinese language sites but failed English language sites. But they are still failed sites. I don't go to my two Myspace pages, ever.

Orkut is not really competing with Facebook. It's huge in Brazil, but has very few English speaking users left.

And in India, where Orkut used to be big, almost everyone I know has migrated to Facebook, so those numbers include a large number of accounts no one is using

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