The 2010 Social Networking Map

Wow, that's awesome! Appreciate how much work that must have been!

Thx! It's definitely a labor of love. The hardest part is coming up with the ideas.

where is posterous? de.wikipedia is larger than fr.wikipedia, but missing? any chance for piratebay/4chan user-estimates?

facebook 500 million members? damn…

Nice Map, like to have it in my Office

If you want the high rez version – just email help@flowtown.com and well send it over.

Huge right? 500MM bananas.

Andreas, we went through 6-9 iterations trying to get everyone in there .. totally forgot about Posterous (our bad).

Errm – haven't you spelt Habbo wrong?

This is cool. Worth tagging friends in Facebook

And also, Strait [of Bing]. (Unless it's a pun I'm not getting.)

Dude that makes very good sense to me man. Wow.

http://www.web-privacy.at.tc

WHATS HABO? habbohotel lol?

what you totally forgot to mention, is that the planet this is on is called 4chan

people stıll use facebook actually? this is like a joke.

It's a very good work….. but where is CRAIG's LIST?

And where is renren.com? Just because it's not western….

HABO is with to BBs HABBO

digg?

Cheers! Added it to: http://sincere.ly/marketing/marketing-map/

Cheers! Added it to: http://sincere.ly/marketing/marketing-map/

Thanks for adding!

Please do.

Never heard of them .. our bad.

Fixing.

Social map .. Craig's list isn't social.

Fair enough

Do it!

Google wave is cancled.

Meebo?

and TO is with a W TWO

Great map! Thanks for posting. I would love to see something like this but with only healthcare social networks. @NatBourre

Shouldn't “Club Penguin” be an Island?

Kind of outdated without reddit in there. Try to keep up, people!

What? No 4chan?

Whatever happened to Xanga?

You are welcome Dan. Keep me in the loop. I bet those continents will be drifting there and there – it would be nice to see their evolution trend line.

Cheers!

Shouldn't it be sinking island of Google Buzz? Also is eBay social networking?

You should add a mountain range to Livejournal called OhNoTheyDidnt. That's the reason a good bit of users use LJ.

QQ should have definitely been on this map (unless it's there and I missed it?) #1 social network in China. 80+ million users.

where is cyworld? kk… kidding

Hey can you guys print a full size poster of this? I'd love to send this out to a few of my clients. BTW, is Ning still relevant?

Hyves?

Nice one. BUT: If this is correct, then social bookmarking sites have nothing to do with the world of social networks. Can I really believe that? Or is this the wrong conclusion… ?

It's more social than eBay, which *was* included. (I'd have left both out myself, but if you include the auction site, the community site that includes forums definitely ought to be there.)

Only thing missing was Skyrock and QQ…

Rich, you're right .. QQ is a big one / our bad.

Hessie, email help@flowtown.com and well get you a highrez version for you. Ning is relevant, just not that much.

Some non-western networks with sizable numbers: renren, QQ, tudou (video sharing), sulekha

Awesome Map, found two sites that i had not heard of. Thanks for the update!

This is very clever, good work guys!

Windows Live isn'y going anywhere, retards. IM will always be here

Since when is ripping off an xkcd comic from 2007 without giving proper credit “clever”? Pretty damned “lame” to me.

http://xkcd.com/256/

…and before anyone says “It's right there.” the credit should be IN the file, not in the blog entry. People aren't going to copy and paste the blog entry; they'll post the file.

You really should display the credit to XKCD on the file, as people who see reposts of this image will not see your credits here.

XKCD's is better. It shows “Online Communities” not just “Social Networking”. Having large PC game communities like World of Warcraft makes it more interesting. Ebay is not much of a social network. Oh and give credit to XKCD *IN* the actual image since it is a blatant ripoff.

“Tribute”? More like copy and try to make as your own. Except you replaced humor and wit with Captain Obvious lines. Lame.

ufomorme is right… Try giving credit in the actual image.

Yes, please give credit on the image. Your image is being reposted all over the interwebs with no indication that it's not just a tribute to, but in many ways identical to the original XKCD comic. Certainly you can't do anything about what other people post, but you can provide a credit in the image, and you should really ask XKCD author Randall Munroe how he'd like that credit to be worded.

Agree w/ @tika, I'm afraid. But that it should spread around the net so fast despite being somewhat less inspiring than the 2007 original tells us something interesting about what's happening w/ digital culture and marketing.

First of all; everyone now knows that a tribute/meme hopping is a good and easy way to get views. And Randall is king of this (in a very sophisticated way, I'd hasten to add.)

Secondly — the speed and extent of curation for self-referential social media content has really taken off: and there's a huge matrix of social media knowledge workers who are keen to pass this material on.

I'm reminded of Phil Gyford's infographic about infographics which has been picked up and spread — often by the very people it satirises.

Hey Jason, I got a great link for you: http://xkcd.com/386/

Are you going to offer this as a poster? I have the original hanging on my wall and it'd be fun to have the before and after.

You should acknowledge XKCD on the poster, not in the text here.. asswipes.

Great infographic like always! However, where are all the social networks from the rest of the world. Most notably Qzone and Renren from China, VKontakte from Russia and the countless ones from places like Korea, Japan and the such.

Qzone at under 390 mil users, Renren 120 mil users and VKontakte at just under 82 mil users are numbers not to shy away from.

Even with that being said, great stuff like always! Keep it up!

Yes. Like the ideas thought up by XKCD that you didn't credit in the image.

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9516/socialn...

Looks more like a map now

Additional point: imeem is now part of myspace. Not noted on the map. Good job on the reorient, Elektron9.

Whoa! That's super cool.

Proper credit to XKCD has been added to the image in addition to the blog post itself as was originally published. Sorry for missing this first-time-around. Appreciate all the constructive feedback.

Done – thank you for pointing this out.

Done. My bad on missing this first time around.

Don't like this map. You've completely ignored China, WTF? A billion people, a fifth or more of the world… nah, they don't count.

That's like And finally, shouldn't that be the 'Sinking Island of Google Buzz'.

This is dumb #fail. Sorry dude, truth hurts.

Sorry 'bout the bad grammar

Windows Live is not going anywhere?…any take on how many users it currently has?

should have said is not going away!

Love the map!

WordPress's scale seems off.

WordPress.com is currently much larger than Tumbler.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/19/tumblr-stats/

WordPress.org estimates “over 25 million”.

YO! wheres my soundcloud?

Great graphic – disappointing lack of Miio.com (

Can I embed this on my blog http://green.cx

I am also giving away Digg Alpha Invites and covering that story…

Great Social Map BTW! I was thinking it was more JRR Tolkien myself…

Completely agree with the lack of Miio!

No prob .. as long as we get attribution. Glad you liked it.

David, how's it going? Great to see you in the comments. I just talked to Ethan and he's thinking about it .. will keep you posted. Maybe something special we offer our customers .

We've added the attribution / our bad .. should've done this in the first place.

1st; Where's Wikia in the Wiki continent (and yes de is larger than fr Wiki)
2nd; no gaming communities? e.g Blizzard's community sites as a whole etc.
3rd; where's the social aggregators like fark and slashdot? displaying them as bridges would be good
4th; not enough non-English communities? i.e. Google/YouTube/Facebook clones in China, Japan e.g. NicoNicoDouga, QQ just to feature a couple of large examples
5th; Image/Art sharing/hosting sites? No DEVIANTART?
6th; If you're mentioning Farmville, make it Zynga-land in Facebook; Farmville+Mafia Wars+their other properties are nearly as ubiquitous as FB itself (50m++ unique users overall IIRC).
7th; no CHANs? (regardless of number) Anonymous is NOT amused. VERY MUCH NOT AMUSED.

That's even better! i would tottally love a poster of either this version. I hope they make a poster version.
Though i suppose a new one would have to be made after a year or so of social media and information highways popularity fluctuates.

Why not contain Tencent QQ from China?

aha~most above Social Networks in China are all jokes, are they exist?

o_O Where is Steam?

Hi I wanted to discover with you http://www.planetaforex.com
it is great!

Maybe I missed it, but I don't see mixi on here. The Japanese based site has over 30 million users, and is unique in it's exclusivity to users based in Japan. http://s.hamachiya.com/mc/

very interesting!

Outstanding!! really loved it though I do not agree with some names as the “rising island of buzz”.. I think that's more like the “want-to-be-rising island of buzz” … buy I may be wrong! The quality of the illustration is exceptional!
Congratulations! I may reblog it, soon!
Kindest Regards!
Lucila Campos (http://www.condiminds.com)

Why did you take Digg off again?

Excellent work…but needs classmates.com

Love this graphic, one the best I've seen!

Where's reddit?

This is nice and all but it needs to be filled out more.

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why LJ is absent?

Nice update to the 2007 map. And you got a link from today’s xkcd (http://xkcd.com/802/).

Windows Live is Xbox Live, and vice-versa. If you have a Windows Live account, any games played via Games for Windows will give achievements for Gamerscore. If that account also happens to be the one you play Xbox 360 games on, then they’re added to that account’s tally as well. So long as there are people playing the Xbox 360, Windows Live is alive and kicking, so to speak.

As for how many users… beats me.

Where is Second Life?

Meetup.com?

i think i speak for everyone real internets where is /b/?
or is fear or retribution?

the only thing the map is missing is “The Banished Coalition of That Guy with the Glasses” just northwest of Youtube!!!

also, where is skype??? i think thats more of a computer program, but it’s still social networking like AIM, which is on the map.

Google looks suspiciously like Russia…

This looks like a rip-off of the xkcd comic >.<

It was inspired by xkcd, see the credit blurb in the graphic. He then made an updated version of his graphic and plugged us: http://xkcd.com/802/ love all around!!

EB

I love the Google information gathering outposts

whoaa ,, this is very funny and good ,, nha ha ha

my name is jarryd and im lonely

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Nice map, great idea…

nice map

nice funny map

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Great Post! But Where Is 2011 Map?

haha… cool map!! 

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Woah twitter is getting pretty big it’s self,Never heard of habbo before tho

http://www.thepadrino.com/

I am sure the world is a different place this year. would love to see the changes in maps