After surpassing Google-owned Orkut, Facebook has become the number one social networking site in the country.A survey conducted recently showed that Facebook held a leadership position in India.
During the last month, US-based global research company ComScore announced that Facebook topped the list of social networking sites in July, supporting another research carried out by Indian online monitor ViziSense that also showed a same trend.
According to reports, Facebook owned 20.9 million unique users during the previous month (July 2010), which is around three times up as against the figures during the same month of 2009.
The report added that Orkut had 19.9 million users.
In a statement, Will Hodgman, comScore executive said, "The social networking phenomenon continues to gain steam worldwide, and India represents one of the fastest growing markets at the moment."
ViziSense figured out that the social networking site had beaten Orkut in the month of April this year as figures showed that it had slightly below 19 million unique users in the month of May whereas Orkut owned 18 million users.
In March this year, Facebook made declaration about the launching of its primary office in India in Hyderabad.
Around 70% users of Facebook are from outside the US, and the site is now accessible in over 70 different languages.
