VK.com
It is a social networking service that is especially popular among Russian people with over 80+ languages. The service focus on providing the features like creating public pages, groups and events by allowing users to message each other privately and publicly. They also allow users to play browser based games, share images, audio and video.
The company has generated the revenue of 42,751 million in 2016 and is under the ownership of VKontakte Ltd with parent company Mail.Ru Group.
How it got started?
The idea of making such useful social networking site came in the mind of its founder Pavel Durov in 2007 while completing out his graduation. He launched out VKontakte in 2006 for it beta testing and it became popular among the St Petersburg State University circles. This was just an initial start that gained popularity within a year of launch and became the second largest player in Russia’s nascent social network market.
How to make an account with it?
VKontakte is ranked second globally for social network. We can easily make an account by just entering the name, phone number and password. After that a validation code is received which is just another step to start with the site. Even one can opt to sign in with his/her Facebook account. We can say it is just a matter of two minutes to create an account with VK.com.
Why use this site?
It is ranked second after Facebook and is higher than Instagram and Twitter. It is also at number 5 among the list of all websites available around the world. We can go for it because it has an incredible searching algorithm further they have focused on in-depth profile that encourages one to find who they are looking for in an easier way with location based searches and posts.
It is also reported that VK has more than 60 million Russian users and over 460 million users worldwide whereas Facebook is limited to about 10 million. It boasts over 70 million active daily users and 3 million daily page views which are enough facts to define its popularity.
