[Ok, read this post, it's a doozy, but before you go download this list, you should check out our new Social Heartbeat Monitor . Look left. Yep, there it is. You might also want to read this article on why we built it to replace the file discussed here.]
About six months ago we started looking at social networks. Not just the top tier sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, etc, but the second and third tiers as well. There are a truly huge number of social network sites out there. Almost every niche has at least one if not many sites devoted to it.
For example, take Memeza. It's a Pligg site for Zambian news. You might think that's pretty small and insignificant, but if you've got a story that would be of interest to Zambians it only takes 2 votes to get to the top page.
It's PR 4. Think of how that might be useful.
A lot of Sites Out There
There seem to be lots of different lists of of social network sites. The lists usually have numbers of sites in double digits. We've scoured the web for everything we could find. Every time we found an article along the lines of "Here are 18 social networking sites you should know about" we added those sites to our list.
We've researched 2,162 social nework sites. Here's how they break down:
| Status | Total |
|---|---|
| Alive - the site is currently functioning as of last week. | 1,613 |
| Dead - It's dead, Jim. | 351 |
| TBD - We still need to look at these, but they're not dupes. | 106 |
| Waiting - We're still waiting on registration. | 11 |
| Zombie - It looks alive, but posts are 180+ days old or it just doesn't work. | 81 |
| Grand Total | 2,162 |
A Present For You
We've put the entire list up on Google Docs as the Promote My Site Social Network and Bookmark MegaList V18. Here's a snapshot of the first few rows to entice you to go download the document.
More than just a list of names of social network sites, we've also included the URL and Domain so you can dedupe it against your own lists, as well as a status as of last week and our comments. If we get enough interest we'll put together an application so that people can query the database.
We thought about making this premium content, but compared to the stuff we're working on for premium, a raw list of social networking sites just doesn't cut it. We hope you'll keep an eye on us for when we start releasing the premium tools.
[Remember, check out our new Social Heartbeat Monitor. and this article to explain why we built it.]
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