Facebook relatively weak in Azerbaijan and in the world
BAKU/24.09.13/TURAN : The most popular social networking site Facebook in Azerbaijan has a strong lead in the beginning of the third decade of September .
Its position is consistently growing, but its popularity in the discussions of the presidential election again reduced - January 1, the leader was trusted by 68.94 %, by 23 August (the peak of the expectations of the National Council of Democratic Forces) - by 77.24 % and by 23 September - only 68.63 %.
Against this background, the audience once again switched to the network YouTube - 16.96% by May 1, 9.3 % by 23 August and 12.06 % at the beginning of this week. This social media while on the second line , but his position in contrast to the " eternal leader " swing . A record for him in Azerbaijan was in October 2012 - 22.82 % in popularity of videos with effects of the abduction of the MNS officers, rampant corruption and tangible political " auto-pilot " in the country.
Twitter (May 1 - 11.96% , July 15 - 9%, 23 August - 7.38 %) dropped from N3 to the fourth place with 7.53 % , but rose to third place "Classmates" with the ever-growing audience ( 2.36 % on January 1 , 5.36 % in mid-July and 8.1%, September 23). The fifth place belongs to VK (In Contact) with 1.48 % (for the month minus 0.1 %) trust the other nominees do not count.
The world's most high level (Month minus 0.16 %) and confidence in the social network Facebook - 70.24%. In the second place from July last year with 9.02% was Pinterest, which allows users to add an online image and place them in a thematic collection , then share them with other users. At the same product for almost a month ( minus 0.2 %) tumbled in popularity, although it is not going to give way under the sun Twitter, to move three places up to 7.49 % (+ 0.4 % per month ) popularity .
Network YouTube has again risen in the world rankings to the 4th place with 4.42 % (1.6% per month) of the users, while StumbleUpon ratings were 4% against 4.89 % a month ago. In Azerbaijan, StumbleUpon is not very popular due to the weak advertising. It is a commercial search service on web pages, combining the principles of P2P and social network with blogging on the principle of a single click. - 17D-
Economics
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