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Royal Pingdom has posted a great article on the top social networking sites by country using data from Google Insights for Search.

So lets kick things off. Which countries are the following social networking sites most popular in?

MySpace: United States
Facebook: Turkey
Hi5: Peru
Friendster: Philippines
LinkedIn: India
Orkut: Brazil
Last.fm: Finland
LiveJournal: Singapore
Xanga: Hong Kong
Bebo: Ireland
Imeem: Philippines
Twitter: Japan

How many did you get? Not many I’m guessing.

HMVis getting into the social networking act with the launch of getcloser.com – a site that has “been built by collectors for collectors”.

Knowing a few record collectors myself I can see this type of thing being quite useful. I commend HMV for not short-changing the humble collector by settling for a Facebook / MySpace widget and instead providing a dedicated area for people to discuss their collection.

Just think how long it would take this guy to sign-up though!