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Malaysia: Social Media
 | In this section: 1. Overview 2. Social Networking 3. Facebook and Friendster 4. Local social networking Other pages in this section are: |
| 1) Overview |
Social media in Malaysia is a booming, and ever changing platform by which Malaysians are interacting online. Each year, new platforms, such as Twitter, are popping onto the scene, and it is important to know what is the new program to use.
The revolution of information technology is getting more people involved in more ways online. No longer are people just blogging. Today, there is high involvement with microblogging, video uploading, photo uploading, and many other interactions with digital media.
There are different types of social on the web and each category has a different focus (with some overlap in functionality)
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| 2) Social Networking Overview |
Our executive summary provides a grand overview of Malaysia’s Social Media atmosphere that has been covered in this section. We have covered the fundamental facts of what makes up Malaysia, and highlighted the findings and analysis in of our research over the last 13 weeks.
Presenting valuable insights in the context of individuals/ corporations from other countries who are looking in Malaysia's social media and what they should understand, in order to formulate the strategies they need to best create effective conversations in Malaysia's social media landscape.
Social Networking Sites: Overview
| No. | Social Network | Alexa Traffic Rank in Malaysia (July 28, 2008) | Google Ad Planner's Unique Visitors (July 28, 2008) |
| 1 | Facebook | 3 | 6,200,000 |
| 2 | Youtube | 4 | Unavailable |
| 3 | Friendster | 8 | 4,200,000 |
| 4 | Myspace | 11 | 2,100,000 |
| 5 | Tagged | 12 | 1,800,000 |
| 6 | Flickr | 29 | 1,500,000 |
| 7 | Photobucket | 34 | 1,300,000 |
| 8 | Twitter | 38 | 750,000 |
| 9 | Metacafe | 48 | 910,000 |
| 10 | Ning | 82 | 690,000 |
| Sources: Alexa and Google Ad Planner, 2009-http://www.greyreview.com/2009/07/28/snapshot-of-social-networking-in-malaysia/ For a more indepth look into specific social networking sites, click here. | |||
| 3) Facebook & Friendster |
Facebook has become the number one social networking site in Malaysia with over 1.1 million facebook users in Malaysia and over 6.2 million unique visitors per month. While Friendster once dominated the social networking scene in Malaysia, Facebook has overtaken Friendster. Friendster, however, still has a wide following and member base of over 2 million active users and 4.2 million unique visitors per month.
| 4) Local Social Networks |
Unlike countries such as Japan, Korea,China, Iran, and some European countries whose main Social Network is locally developed, Malaysians primarily use global social networks such as Myspace, Facebook, and Friendster. The following, however, are top Malaysian-developed social networking site:
No. | Social Network | Alexa Traffic Rank in Malaysia (July 28, 2009) | Google Ad Planner's Unique Visitors from Malaysia (July 28, 2009) |
| 1 | Ruumz | 1,687 | 36,000 |
| 2 | eKewan | 2,045 | 32,000 |
| 3 | GoEatOut | 2,666 | 22,000 |
| 4 | Circles99 | 3,660 | 9,300* |
| 5 | Pacmee | 19,444 | 7,700* |
| 6 | eMeiMei | 21,360 | 7,000* |
| 7 | FriendX | 22,971 | Not Available |
| * refers to total worldwide Unique Visitors Source: comScore World Metric, July 2009 | |||
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