Confirmation:, Facebook, Now, Thailand's, Dominant, Social, Network

Italian social media blogger Vincenzo Cosenza has updated his near legendary global social networking map with new data.

Here is watch Vincenzo wrote back in his last update from December 2009 (as blogged here).

Hi5 has also seen Facebook take over most of the territories where it was leading, and has only been able to stop the social network from dominance in Peru, Portugal, Romania, Thailand and Mongolia.

And from the latest post.

Month after month Facebook continues to gain users around the world (almost 500 million). Since December 2009 Facebook has stolen new nations from its local competitors (in 111 out of 131 countries analyzed it is market leader). In particular:

- From Orkut (Google): Estonia and maybe India (Alexa gives India to FB, while Google Trends for websites shows an head to head match with Orkut as winner.

- From Hi5: Thailand, Romania, Peru, Portugal. Hi5 resists in Mongolia where the situation is unclear.

– From One: Lithuania
- From Wretch: Taiwan
– From Friendster: Philippines

This news comes as little surprise to anyone who has kept up with social networking in Thailand, or the recent political protests since the unrest in Bangkok was the trigger for a huge increase in Facebook users in the country, explaining Vincenzo’s results.

On a side note, interesting to see Facebook has usurped Friendster as the number one social network in The Philippines.

From the full map, as can be found of Vincenzo’s blog, Brazil, Russia and Iran stand out as sizeable markets yet to fall to the Facebook empire, how much longer will this be the case?

As for China, that’s a different question, answer and discussion altogether.

Image is an edited version of the full global social media map available at vincos.it