VK
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Commercial? Yes
Type of site Social networking service
Registration Open to everyone with a cell phone
Available language(s) 70 languages
Users 290 million
Owner Doraview Limited
Created by Pavel Durov
Launched September 2006
Alexa rank 39 (August 2012)
Current status Online


VK (Originally VKontakte, Russian: ВКонтакте) is a Russian social network service popular in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Belarus. The aim of VK is to remain the fastest, most modern and aesthetically pleasing means of communicating on the Internet. VK allows users to message contacts publicly or privately, create groups, public pages and events, make notes, share and tag images, audio and video, and play browser-based games.
As of March 2012, VK has 118.8 million accounts but has acknowledged that it has a major spam problem, and no longer advertises user numbers on its homepage. VKontakte is ranked 39 in Alexa's global Top 500 sites and is the fourth most visited website in Russia. In January 2012 vkontakte.ru was visited by 25.4 million people from Russia (58.7% aged 12-54) and vk.com by 21.5 million (49.6% aged 12--54).
"В Контакте" (V Kontákte) translates to English as "In Contact" or "In Touch".

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