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Other findings from the report include:

• The number of active users of mobile social networking sites is expected to rise from 54 million in 2008 to nearly 730 million in 2013.

• The Far East and China region will be most popular in terms of mobile user number for mobile social networking and PCD throughout the forecast period, but the Indian Subcontinent will become the largest region for mobile dating services by 2010

• There will be more than 9 billion downloads from PCD sites by 2013, of which 32% will be ad-supported.

Juniper Research assesses the current and future status of mobile user-generated content based on interviews, case studies and analysis from representatives of some of the leading organisations in the growing mobile user-generated content industry.

Marketers are just now starting to figure out what mobile can offer them, and many have yet to test what’s possible in the realm of social networks such as Facebook. But two new reports, one from ABI Research and the other from JupiterResearch, suggest they don’t have a lot of leisure for contemplation.

The ABI study finds the number of users navigating those social networks via handset could hit 140 million in five years. The study takes a global view, and thus much of the early traffic on mobile social networks might occur overseas. But the success of mobile communities in other countries would foster their acceptance in North America too, given the viral propensities of those networks.

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Worldwide Mobile Social Network Users

Mobile social networking is soon becoming a buzz word in India and why not after all India does boast of over 300 million mobile subscribers and social networking is a fad that has moved from Orkut To Facebook but hasn’t died down in India. Infact Indian social networks boast of some really big numbers being added to their database these days. Mobile social networking is limited to the small mobile screens and what you can to with tiny key pads and get your message across. One has to create a different experience on mobile than what’s on the web. Internationally location based mobile social networking is something that many iPhone developers are working on.