Orkut
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Google's Orkut Peaked at 300 Million Users, Dominating Brazil and India
“Launches a social network within Google called Orkut, and it didn't become that big in America, but it got at its peak, I think, three hundred million users. It was the biggest social network in Brazil, the biggest social network in India.”
Balfour: Facebook was one-fourth MySpace's size when launching its platform
“And so at the time they launched their platform, I think they were maybe like one fourth, one fifth the size of, you know, something like my space or even friends or orchid, like some of these are some of the names.”
Reddy: Orkut was the dominant social network prior to Facebook's India expansion
“It wasn't a public company, and by the way, Orkut was the dominant social media network at that time as well. It was not Facebook”
Facebook had 1M Brazil users vs Orkut's 35M in early 2010
“Facebook had something around a million users at that time in Brazil, ah, and our biggest competitor, which was Google's social network, Orkut, had over thirty five million users.”
Buchheit: Orkut died in the US because it became too slow
“Orkut actually was taking off.
and you can make up a bunch of reasons why maybe it didn't end up being the social network, but it was exploding.
and then it became, it was growing so fast it became unresponsive.
So, like, it just, that was kind of why it die…”