On September 30, 2014, Orkut will be officially shut down.Users won’t be able to log in anymore, photo export to Google+
will be unavailable, and all the APIs and other tools will go down, too.
Orkut was one of Google’s first attempts to launch a social network. It never caught on in the U.S., but it did find its network in countries like Brazil,for a while at least — it was the most popular social network. Facebook finally overtook it there. In India, Orkut wasn’t able to hold on quite as long. There, it fell to Facebook in 2010.
Today, 50 percent of Orkut users are still in Brazil, 20 percent in India and just under 18 percent are from the U.S.
Most of active development that has been stopped around 2012. The site still features Google’s old menu bar, and it looks like Google Talk never got any upgrade there either.Google now wants users to move over to Google+.
That’s not a bad record for a Google service, but Google says that as YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off , “the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut’s growth.” Google says it wants to focus its energy and resources on making these other social platforms like Google+,Youtube”.
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