Facebook is close to surpassing Orkut as India’s most well-known social network with 21 million vs. 20 million unique visitors in July, Facebook formally opened its awaited office in Hyderabad earlier this week. Facebook Hyderabad is Facebook’s second International office, after Dublin, Ireland and the Indian panel will include more sales and operations as well as multi-lingual support staff in order provide round-the-clock international support.
From the Facebook blog:
The new offices come at a significant time in our international growth. Seventy percent of the people using Facebook are outside the U.S. and are accessing the service from more than 70 languages. In India alone, we’ve seen rapid growth and now have more than 8 million people there actively connecting on Facebook with their friends, family, and other people they know, both within India and around the globe.
Hyderabad, India’s ‘City of Peals,’ is often called “Cyberabad” as it is the Indian base of many other technology companies including Google, Microsoft, Oracle HP, Dell, Motorola, IBM, HP and Amazon. Social gaming giant Zynga also recently set up an outpost in Bangalore, in an effort to capitalize on the sizable Indian market.
