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> when Facebook and Google noticed Russia and tried expanding into it, it was too late. There were competing social networks in europe and UK as well, big nam
by cblconfederate 6y ago
> when Facebook and Google noticed Russia and tried expanding into it, it was too late.
There were competing social networks in europe and UK as well, big names. Why are those in the graveyard though?
- grishka 6y agoThey probably didn't gain enough traction and network effect before Facebook started its efforts to expand. Just to put that into perspective: by 2010, VKontakte had around 60M users and exceeded 100M by the end of the year. Meanwhile Facebook wasn't even fully translated into Russian, and it was this obscure thing some hipsters used as their secondary social network.
- machiaweliczny 6y agoIn Poland people switched to Facebook due to network effect and because it's super hard to compete with preinstalled application. Local competitor had 10M users (same as Google usage, 40M country) and lost due to preinstalled FB apps on mobile. We still have local competition to Amazon but I guess days are numbered as they just filled for IPO.