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The Orkut team on Monday said that the social network would shut down on September 30 this year. It also announced that from today, Orkut, which is owned by Google, would stop accepting new users.
In This Pic : Google will close Orkut on September 30
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The social media site, which was once a force to reckon with, gradually lost to websites like Facebook and Twitter. Once one of the most visited websites in countries like Brazil and India, Orkut by 2010 had become so irrelevant that Google was forced to launch Google+ to take on Facebook.
In This Pic : Google will close Orkut on September 30
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Still millions of people continued to visit Orkut. According to the data available on the website, 50% of Orkut users are based in Brazil while 20% are from India.
In This Pic : Google will close Orkut on September 30
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"We will shut down Orkut on September 30, 2014. Until then, there will be no impact on current Orkut users, to give the community time to manage the transition," Paulo Golgher, engineering director of Orkut, wrote in a blog. "People can export their profile data, community posts and photos using Google Takeout (available until September 2016). Starting today, it will not be possible to create a new Orkut account."
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"Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell (or, tchau)," explained Golgher.
In This Pic : Google will close Orkut on September 30
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