International social network or competitors of Facebook company.
Table of contents Content
Introduction 2
History of Vk.com 4
Company 4
Website 5
Functionality 5
Languages 7
Issues 8
VK.com vs. Facebook 9
“You are what you share.”
― Charles Leadbeater, We Think: The Power Of Mass Creativity
Introduction
VK.com (Originally VKontakte, Russian: “ВКонтакте”, literally "in contact") is the second biggest social network service in Europe after Facebook, it is available in several languages but popular particularly among Russian-speaking users around the world, especially in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Belarus. Like other social networks, VK.com allows users to message contacts publicly or privately, create groups, listen to music, watch video for free, public pages and events, share and tag images, and play browser-based applications.
As of December 2012, VK.com has at least 195 million accounts. VK.com is ranked 23, as of November 25, 2013, in Alexa's global Top 500 sites and is the second most visited website in Russia, after Yandex. In December 2012 VK.com had an average of 43 million daily users.
Top 10 Most Popular Social Networking Sites according to Alexa internet ranking | November 2013
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1 | Facebook 3 - eBizMBA Rank | 800,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 3 - Compete Rank | 3 - Quantcast Rank | 2 - Alexa Rank.
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2 | Twitter 15 - eBizMBA Rank | 250,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 30 - Compete Rank | 5 - Quantcast Rank | 9 - Alexa Rank. |
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3 | LinkedIn 16 - eBizMBA Rank | 200,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 24 - Compete Rank | 17 - Quantcast Rank | 8 - Alexa Rank. |
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4 | Google Plus+ 26 - eBizMBA Rank | 150,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *24* - Compete Rank | *28* - Quantcast Rank | NA - Alexa Rank. |
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5 | Pinterest 27 - eBizMBA Rank | 140,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 40 - Compete Rank | 14 - Quantcast Rank | 26 - Alexa Rank. |
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6 | Tumblr 31 - eBizMBA Rank | 125,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 55 - Compete Rank | 13 - Quantcast Rank | 25 - Alexa Rank. |
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7 | Flickr 94 - eBizMBA Rank | 67,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 115 - Compete Rank | 102 - Quantcast Rank | 65 - Alexa Rank. |
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8 | VK 97 - eBizMBA Rank | 65,400,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *150* - Compete Rank | *120* - Quantcast Rank | 22 - Alexa Rank.
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9 | Instagram 132 - eBizMBA Rank | 50,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 51 - Compete Rank | 307 - Quantcast Rank | 39 - Alexa Rank.
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10 | DeviantArt 202 - eBizMBA Rank | 30,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 395 - Compete Rank | 82 - Quantcast Rank | 130 - Alexa Rank. |
"В Контакте" (VKontákte) literally translates to English as "InContact" or "InTouch".