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Social networking services are gaining popularity at a very fast rate. Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and many more have been active among people for a long time, thus providing users many features to enjoy online. Apart from great success of these networking websites, there have been various reasons for the downfall of a known website- Orkut. This paper concludes various reasons for the downfall of Orkut and helps in understanding the popularity of Facebook. The outcome of this paper will help in understanding whether Facebook will have a downfall like Orkut or there may be some other reasons for its downfall.
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Jha, T., Sharma, S.B., Chaturvedi, S.K. (2017). Modeling the Decline of Orkut with Popularity in Facebook. In: Singh, M., Gupta, P., Tyagi, V., Sharma, A., Ören, T., Grosky, W. (eds) Advances in Computing and Data Sciences. ICACDS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 721. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5427-3_41
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