World Map Of Social Networks…How Accurate Is This Though?
Interactive Data Visualization is becoming a hot trend in the interactive marketing world and the Many Eyes Website has some great examples. One in particular is the World Map of Social Networks created by user Vincos that was posted here. The link has an interactive version of the map so check it out. For the purposes of this blog post, I’ve included the image below:
How accurate is this? I’m not sure and haven’t had time to fact check what the largest social network is in Belarus. But, one thing this shows that’s definitely accurate is how fast MySpace fell off the global map and how quickly Facebook has risen to global dominance. This is also accurately reflected in recent Compete stats (as my compadre Jack pointed out):
What is also apparent (and disturbing) is that in this 21st century world, we still have many countries in Africa that are not connected and are getting left behind in this latest social media / internet revolution…