Facebook has become the most popular social network in France, according to the latest figures from comScore. Social networking had a banner year in France, with a 45 percent increase in unique visitors. In Europe as a whole, 211 million (roughly three fourths of total internet users) visited social networking sites.
After Facebook launched a French language interface in February of 2008, the site’s popularity skyrocketed, growing 443 percent over the past year to an estimated 12 million visitors. The native social network Skyrock only grew by a paltry 8 percent (in terms of unique visitors). MySpace ranked fourth on the list of leading social networking sites, with 3 million visitors. This is not surprising, since Facebook has been steadily widening the gap with MySpace internationally.
Worldwide, Facebook had an estimated 221.8 million unique visitors, up from 200.2 million visitors in November, showing an 11 percent growth in visitors. That compares to 125 million unique visitors for MySpace versus 120.7 million visitors in November, a 4 percent increase.
While Facebook is dominating in the global space, MySpace still is at the top in the U.S. But, Facebook’s growth hasn’t stagnated and we think Facebook could be set take the top spot from MySpace very soon.
While I was visiting France last year (Paris and the southern portion from Nice to Bordeaux), stopping by the occasional train stations and cafes, noticing all the laptops people had with Facebook France open on their browser, you could sense which was already the top social networking site there.
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About the total number of profils, we are about 10% of the population (~6 million profiles).
Skyrock and the Skyblogs are very teenage oriented and poor quality, so I guess people migrate progressively to new social places.
They have the Internet in France? lol jk
I bet when the French people realize how powerful Twitter is they will start using it more. They can get fashion advice and advice on food and tea in real time on Twitter.
Bonjour from Canada!
@Adrian Eden : Internet is better in france than in the US and Canada
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And more people are connected broadband in France than in Canada.
The problem with comparing Canada to France in Broadband access is that Canada is the same size as all of Europe and North Africa combined.
In my home city of Vancouver BC we have some of the fastest Internet speeds in the world.
I love French people, their culture, their looks, some of my best friends are from Quebec.
Godspeed!
Hey, french users should be just as exposed, abused, and suckered as much as americans. Time to translate the TOS in french..lol
“the site’s popularity skyrocketed”
Nice!
Speaking of Skyrock, I’m not the only french relieved that it’s not number one anymore…
It was a farm of lol-blogs (yeah we lol in france too)
If its big in France, than I guess that means Facebook must surrender to the Germans too!??!?!?!
,Michael Martin
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ooo france…
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That is so funny, One year ago they was so against it when I was talking to my friends in paris…. Skyrock and CopainDAvant must feel very bad those days. They slept during the last years regarding to their IT tools, they’ll pay for it.
So is Jerry Lewis. Not a good sign.
that should be enough to turn the rest of the world off to FB now
these unique numbers are such bs knowing that facebook as long as you visit just one time per month they count you . how many of those unique are from bots
Actually it’s not surprising, during the past 6 months, everybody in my friends/family have created a Facebook page.
@Adrian Eden: To be a French native living in Montreal, Canada have a lot to do to be close to France in Internet, connection are expensive and sucks here… (got a 10M limited (100Go) connexion for 75$/month here in Montreal, where in France in my small village (500people lost in the mountain) i had 15M unlimited since 2006 and 1M DSL since 2002…
And about Twitter, it’s too poor to do something, we already got SMS, Facebook, IM software, blog, don’t need an other one to communicate quickly with friends.
I think it’s just a matter of time before Facebook dominates into different countries. With the amount of backing and support from Microsoft, it won’t be long till the break barriers.
Would Google allow such thing?
Is Facebook being big still news?