Who is the Most Popular Social Networking Website in Singapore

Friendster claims they are No. 1 social networking website in Singapore:

…today announced that it is the #1 social network in Singapore, and almost twice the size of any other social network in the country. Friendster is almost 2 times bigger than Facebook and more than 7 1/2 times bigger than MySpace in Singapore — according to the third party, well-known Internet measurement company, comScore.

Read the whole press release here. Google Trends verifies the finding:

Be careful, friendster; Facebook is catching up. Users on Facebook are more mature; you need to be careful with which social network you should employ for marketing and advertising. Is it good for you? The same rule applies here: test, test, and test.

[Oct 1, 2009] Update: according to Hitwise, the popular Singapore social networking and forum sites are:

1. Facebook
2. YouTube
3. Singapore HardwareZone Community forums.hardwarezone.com.sg
4. Twitter
5. Plurk
6. LiveJournal
7. Tudou.com
8. Friendster
9. Tumblr
10. Tagged

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