Facebook Usage in India Grows as Orkut lags behind

Insidefacebook reports that based on the data from Facebook’s advertiser tools facebook has been explosively growing for last two months in India.

Starting about 60 days ago, Facebook’s growth began accelerating rapidly in both Brazil and India, growing several times faster in May and June than it did in March and April.

- InsideFacebook

While Facebook has been growing slowly and steadily in India for the last couple of years, Facebook exploded in May and June, doubling from 1.6 million to 3.2 million monthly active users in the country in the last 60 days.

- InsideFacebook

Orkut still appears to have the largest user base amongst social networks in India with 13 million users.

Click here to read more on Facebook’s growth story in India on Medianama.

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