1.Facebook.com: Was initially intended for college students — it branched out, and now allows everyone membership. 150 million members.

2.MySpace.com: 191 million members. This site is massive, boasting the largest membership of any social networking site on the Internet.

3.Linkedin.com: 12.5 million members — a powerful tool for business networking.

4.Friendster.com: 29 million members. Friendster was considered the top online social networking service until around April 2004, when it was overtaken by MySpace. Demographic studies indicate users are from 17 to 30 years old.

5.Stumbleupon.com: Boasting 2.75 million users, StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. A great way to get website promotion. Bought by eBay for $75 million in May 2007.

6.del.icio.us: The website del.icio.us (pronounced as "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and is now part of Yahoo!.

7.digg.com: Digg is a website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories, in a social and democratic spirit.

8.Orkut.com: Orkut is an Internet social networking service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. It claims to be designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. Now has a membership of 57 million.

9.Twitter.com: A free social networking service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts that are up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, email, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. The site has become very popular in only a few months — a lot of people are watching it.

10.Classmates.com: 40 million members. One of the oldest social networking sites around, Classmates was kicked off in 1995, and has proven to be a great way for members to to connect with old friends and acquaintances from throughout their lives.

11.Meetup.com: 2 million members. Meetup.com is an online social networking portal that facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world. Meetup allows members to find and join groups unified by a common interest, such as politics, books, games, movies, health, pets, careers or hobbies.

12.Yahoo! 360° (a.k.a Yahoo! Days) is a personal communication portal similar to orkut  and MySpace — it is currently in the beta-testing phase. It integrates features of social networking, blogging and photo sharing sites.

13.Xanga.com: 40 million members. Xanga is a free Web-based service that hosts weblogs, photoblogs, videoblogs, audioblogs, and social networking profiles.

14.Care2.com: 7.2 million members. Care2 is a social networking  website that was founded to help connect activists from around the world.

15.Ryze.com: .25 million members. Ryze.com is a free social networking website designed to link business professionals.

In all, there are over 100 social networking sites on the Internet. Some of the other social networking sites that I have not included in the list above are:

Bebo, BlackPlanet.com, Flickr.com, Reunion.com, aSmallWorld, Bebo, BlackPlanet.com, Blue Dot, Bolt, Broadcaster.com, Buzznet, CarDomain, Consumating, Couchsurfing, Cyworld, Dandelife, DeadJournal, DontStayIn, Doostang, Ecademy, eSPIN, Faceparty, Flickr, Flirtomatic, Fotki, Friends Reunited, Gaia Online, Geni.com, GoPets, Graduates.com, Grono.net, Hyves, imeem, Infield Parking, IRC-Galleria, iWiW, Joga, Bonito, Last.fm, LibraryThing, LiveJournal, LunarStorm, MEETin, MiGente.com, Mixi, MOG, Multiply, My Opera Community, myYearbook, Netlog, Nexopia, OUTeverywhere, Passado, Piczo, Playahead, ProfileHeaven, Pownce, RateItAll, Reunion.com, Searchles, Sconex, Shelfari, Soundpedia, Sportsvite, Studivz, TagWorld, TakingITGlobal, The Doll Palace, The Student Center, Threadless, TravBuddy.com, Travellerspoint, Tribe.net, Vampire Freaks, Vox, WAYN, WebBiographies, Windows Live Spaces, Woophy, XING, Xuqa, Yelp, Zaadz, Zooomr

From: The top 15 social networking websites.

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You can start a micro blogging community just like twitter ™ with these Free Open Source Microblogging script, and also you can try these microblogging applications.

Free Open Source Microblogging script

1.StatusNet is the open source micro messaging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain.

With StatusNet you can encourage collaboration, build and engage your community, and be in command of your brand. Previously Laconica is the engine which runs the popular micro blogging site Identi.ca

It is built with PHP/MySQL & offers a smooth usage as it is a widely used, mature application.

2.Yonkly is build on Asp.net MVC framework is another Free Open Source Twitter Clone and Microblogging script as well as Web service.

Based on ASP.net MVC framework makes it really fast

Very Easy to setup and take very less time

Besides the open source version, it has a hosted & an advanced standalone version.

3.Jaiku was the microblogging site of Google. However, they decided no longer to develop the code but make it open source under the name JaikuEngine.

Anyone can set up and run their own JaikuEngine instance on Google App Engine. Alo, there is an open source mobile client & frontend.

4.Floopo this free microblogging script is built with PHP & MySQL.

It functions very similar to Twitter & provides a powerful backend to manage the whole system.

5.Sharetronix Opensource – The Ideal Microblogging Tool for Your Community

Sharetronix Opensource is a multimedia microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company, or group to exchange short messages over the Web.

Microblogging application

6.Jisko is a PHP microblogging application that offers a Twitter-like API for developing it further.

Users can have their profile pages, message with each other easily & Jisko is compatible with mobile devices.

7.PageCookery is a single-user microblog which can pull data from social networks like Flickr, last.fm, etc.

It offers an Ajaxed interface where users can comment to the entries easily.

P.S. The original page is Chinese. However, you can view the English version behind Google Translate.

8.EchoWaves is a ready-to-use hosted application where the source code is offered for free.

It is a collaboration tool & a social network which is focused to conversations rather than the users.

9.P2 WordPress Theme This is a WordPress theme which can convert your blogging engine into a Twitter-like interface.

It has real-time updates where new posts & comments come in without reloading. There are also inline comments, posting from homepage & more.

10.TypePad Motion enables publishers and marketers to create vibrant, branded communities that deepen loyalty and increase page views while giving you total control of your brand.

It is based on Pownce & MovableType Motion and built with Django.

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So what exactly is Twitter? …………………………………………………..6
Twitterer or Tweeter? ………………………………………………………….7
2. What’s So Good about Twitter? ……………………………………………………………….8
3. Setting up your Twitter account for the first time ……………………………………. 10
4. How to Effectively Tweet……………………………………………………………………… 14
Finding More Followers ………………………………………………………………………… 15
Publicising Your Twitter Username …………………………………………………. 17
Top Followed People on Twitter …………………………………………………………… 19
Hashtags – what are they and why are they useful to you? ………………………….. 20
ReTweeting – how to do it and why other Tweeters value them …………………….. 21
Sending a Direct Message to another User …………………………………………………. 22
Searching Twitter to Stay on Top of the Trends……………………………………………. 23
Maintaining Your Reputation on Twitter ……………………………………………………… 25
Cleaning up Your Twitter Account……………………………………………………………. 26
Protected Updates Versus Public Updates – What’s Best? …………………………….. 29
5. Twitter Apps and Bots You Should Know About …………………………. 30
Desktop Apps ……………………………………………………………… 30
10 Twitter Bots You Might Want to Follow …………………………………………………… 35
Other Useful Twitter Websites & Applications ………………………………………………. 39
6. Twitter Tips & Tricks ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 45
Scheduling your Tweets for Later with SocialOomph ……………………………………… 45
How to Automate New Followers ………………………………………………………………… 47
Some Funny Twitter Accounts to Follow ……………………………………………………….. 49
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We will install WordPress blogging platform on your domain using cPanel and tool called “Fantastico De Luxe” which is included with almost each decent hosting service.

1. Go to your cPanel X home page and find Fantastico De Luxe icon in the most bottom of the screen. (see the image below)

2. Then click on the icon and you will be taken to Fantastico screen page. Then you will need to select “WordPress” from the menu to the right hand side.

3. Have a look at the screenshot below; your page should look something like that. Now I want you to select “New Installations”.

4. Select a domain from the drop-down menu you want WordPress system to be installed to. In our case it’s is the sub-domain of your main domain you want to rank for in search engines.

5. Leave “install in directory” blank and it will be installed in your main root directory automatically.

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7. Admin nickname could be the same as you login nickname. In admin email put the working email of your domain. It’s easy to create one from the home page of C-Panel (just select email accounts from the home page of c-Panel X)

8. Now you want to enter “site name”. I advise you to put your main keyword in this box or at least include it in the title.

9. When filling in “description” box remember to put in your main keyword in there as well or even better if you will start the description with your main keyword. This will make search engines thinking that your blog and website is more important and will rank it higher.

10. Click “Install WordPress” button next. Just follow these steps are specified by Fantastico.

11. On the 2nd step of the installation it will give you the link to your WordPress blog admin area. I strongly recommend you to make a shortcut link to it and save in some safe place on your computer. You will use this path to login into your admin area, this is obvious.

Now you have your WordPress platform ready for use. Aslo you can know more about WordPress like Plugin, theme in my WordPress categories.

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