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Evolution of Social Media in India
Social media, today it has become very very common among everyone. Not only youngsters but office going
people are also addicted to it. It has not only made connecting to people so easier but also make it fun to discuss various things as you can have everyone commenting on the same tag/ post. We all are aware of these social networking site.
Orkut: This site was the start of social media in India. soon, it became one of the most popular site amongst youngsters. It was talked about by all. It emphasized on connecting with current friends, reconnecting with old friends and some got new friends too. This site came with the concept of creating communities and brought the kindly of social revolution in India. Based on this website, many new social networking websites have started working along with it but no one able to challenge it.
Facebook: After the success of Orkut, Facebook was launched in India and it grew at at a tremendous speed. It not only overtook all the other social networks but also challenged the popularity of Orkut and that too in no time. Facebook came with "wall" concept which in starting seemed to be little wierd but soon it became popular coz it has all the post real time. Not only this it came with a good concept that all the friends can comment on a single "status/ tag" which make it even more interesting. That was not all, it also came up with "Pages" feature along with "groups" which was agaian a hit to the social media industry and finally it overtook Orkut. Now, it has more that 8 million users in India alone. The good part about Facebook is that it didn't rested after developing one thing, it worked simultaneously to develop it's features to make them better and asked to the developers to make their fun applications and attach with the site to make it more fun to use. 
Twitter: Then came the latest buzz in the social media industry so far. As soon it came, it made the social media industry rock. It has overcome the feature of making friends to make them followers. Or we can say it has upgraded "blogger" to advanced version and made it a lot easier for people to connect to their superstars rather than friends. Yes, we can connect to our friends too but, it has helped more to the big guns to show their fan following and got a new platform to promote themselves. Twitter cam with only status updates and that too of only 150 chars which made it even more interesting to update shorter and more number of updates.
Every network mentioned above has effected the presence of "Blogger" users but they themselves are using the services of "Blogger" t connect to their users. As "twitter" itself is using "Blogger" for their blogs.
Above is the little information or can be said the evolution of Social Media in India.
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