With the Internet itself not expected to reach a majority of China's vast population until 2015, Qzone may even be able to overhaul Facebook's active user figures without having to expand very much outside Chinese borders.
Tencent's Qzone claims to have almost half a billion members itself in China – an obvious stumbling block in Facebook's quest for complete worldwide dominance. Just this month Facebook announced it had passed the 1 billion active members mark.
In China (where both Facebook and Twitter are officially banned), Qzone rules the roost while VK (formerly Vkontakte) has a huge following in Russia. Consumers are no longer passive recipients of direct marketing messages (if they ever were).
Will Google+ be popular enough to topple Orkut in Brazil and India, Mixi in Japan, or even Qzone and Ren Ren in China? If you’ve been active on social media in the past few weeks – or have been reading Search Engine Watch and other geek and tech...
China's four biggest social networks are Qzone.com, Renren.com, Kaixin001.com, and 51.com. Qzone is the biggest Chinese player, with a claimed 380 million users (although RenRen has the most active users).
Yet, some sources say China's QZone is larger, with more than 300 million using their services (Facebook's ban in China plays into this). Is social media a fad or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?
Facebook dominates in most countries, and is growing, but social network Qzone, or QQ, still dominates in China. Remember when the search world was less defined than it is now? Your business was figuring out strategies for Lycos, Looksmart, Ask...
Qzone has the most bloggers followed by Sina.com, MSN Spaces and Sohu.com. Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web. If you're not familiar with our blog, click on any of the links...
Qzone has the most bloggers followed by Sina.com, MSN Spaces and Sohu.com. Chinese search engine giant Baidu has launched a blog search engine - the first in the China. Nearly 20 million people blog in Chinese.
