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Trying to know how many SNS we have up until now


Number of social network sites is going up and up, as part of my thesis research in order to find how viable for entrepreneurs and SME's to invest in building applications on SNS i have first to find numbers, ratios of how big is this market? That was my prof. exact words, the knowledgeable Prof. G. Yovanof.

So i went to this article "List of Social Networking Sites" on Wikipedia last week 17th of july and started to extract the information from that wonderful list but they lacked a piece of information like the year where each website was launched, with a help of a very special person to me she started parsing the table one by one to provide me stats like the number of SNS launched each year from 1996 until today. i owe her a lot she saved me a lot of time, merci.

Currently am working on finding the number of SNS users throughout those years in a way to strengthen my argument when i present my thesis end of august.

Usefull resources about Social Network Sites

During my quest to find good reliable resources for my thesis research i found these papers that i thought it would be a great idea to provide them all in one location to ease the process for other researchers - no need to thank me its all there on the internet am just facilitating.

The first one entitled by "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship" by boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. it helped me a lot in building the first part of my thesis where i have tried to define social network & its history then i listed general features of SNS with description about each one of them.

"FUTURE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING by Richard Longair" A short paper but yet up to the point that is concerned about the future of SNS as it title clearly show.


"Online Social and Business Networking Communities" a rich paper that tackles SNS from various aspects from a definition to a brief history up to summarizing various SNS features also a description of various SNS business models is alos provided.

"Overview of business models for Web 2.0 communities" & "Web 2.0 and Business" are both on my analysis to do list but didnt have the chance to go through them yet.

Good Luck