According to
Alexa, Belgium can be considered rather conservative concerning social media websites. With a second place in its Belgian Top Sites rankings, just behind
Google,
Facebook is omnipopular in Belgium. According to
GoogleAdPlanner some 3.800.000 Belgians visit Facebook regularly.
Youtube is the third most popular website among Belgians.
Wikipedia is on spot 8.
Compared to January 2010, with a ranking 13, Belgian
Netlog switches places with
Blogger that becomes number 12.
Compared to January 2010,
Badoo is the top winner, with a gain of 36 places on Alexa's Belgian Top Sites list. Badoo is a UK based international social networking site available in 16 languages (also in Dutch).
Twitter use in Belgium nearly doubled the passed year. The website jumps 26 places and becomes the 21st most popular website among Belgians.
LinkedIn, which is mostly aimed at professionals and business networking jumps 23 places and hits spot 44.
Other winners are blog service
WordPress (8 places) and photo sharing service
Flickr (5 places).
Big loser is
MySpace (that loses 24 places in the Alexa ranking compared to January 2010).
Netlog loses 1 place.