July 3, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Yahoo! Answers Ranked 5th Largest Social Media Network
With 54 million unique users in the U.S. and 250 million worldwide, Yahoo! Answers is among the largest knowledge-sharing communities on the Web. And according to the Business Journals network, it’s also the 5th largest social media network on the web. Since launching in 2005, Yahoo! Answers has been a place where people can ask and answer questions on any topic. Clearly, people continue to share their experience and insight in droves.
Thanks to all of our wonderful community! It’s you that keeps this thriving social media network going!
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Congradulations yahoo. That’s a great accomplishment. Im not surprised yahoo aswers is a great site. I come here daily. I welcome all the new users who just joined and welcome the ones who have been here for awhile.
I have found Yahoo Answers a wonderful resource
and just such an amazing, and almost genius way for us to be ‘prompted(?)’ to share our knowledge,
help one another.
I love so many areas, and wish there was more
time to peruse them all!! I’ve received KEY help
with a heater that a techno told me could be
dangerous and take it back (I did), also
health things, and many other things.
I also find R & S interesting and stimulating
provoking much ‘food for thought’.
I’ve also been delighted with how the staff
are careful and if we don’t see a VN posted,
they do read it, do try to see our point,
and will return the question.
And then they post the material we put
so this adds to the experience also.
I do not begrudge Yahoo the need to
raise some money to do all this.
Thanks a lot!!
I’m here since April 2006 and I wonder why this Y!A thing is not touted by the media in general, where we can see that Facebook, Linkedin and such social media gets their due share of public gossip, for good or bad.
We are 150 million people in Bangladesh and I can count the numbers of Y!A users easily, whereas our people are hooked up with FB.
Btw, I miss the sad demise of Y!360 that would have rivaled FB if Yahoo! management would have let Y!360 grow. Too sad that they missed the bus.
I wish continued success of Y!A wholeheartedly.
Cognates. It’s a good news. I use Yahoo answer last couple of months.
that is not so surprising, yahoo answers is my favorite web site and one of the best sites on the web. I am here almost everyday and here I can share my experiecess and enjoy being my self and find solves for my problem. I also enjoy sharing others their experincess and enjoy answering their question. Well you go Y!A
If this site accelerate int his it will soon be the world largest.
Yahoo should be number 1 not number 5 because Google copied and took their materials from Yahoo, Microsoft is crap, and Bing is crap because they also copied from Google search, which in turn copied from Yahoo search! Google translate is crap. Wikipedia, although I respect the free form of having everyone being able to edit it, but those who abuse the powers and edit the correct stuff and put crap up is what I’m against!
I do love being a part of yahoo answers. At one time I was addicted to it. I still visit most every day. Just need to remember that I do have this life to live. As long as I have Yahoo Answers and the friends I have made, I shall never be lonely. Thank God.
I bet the list goes like this;
1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Myspace
4. Pornhub
5. Y!A!
Does this recognition mean that Yahoo management will finally apply some resources to YA?
It’s a good resource, fairly amusing, and a very sticky application. People spend a lot more time here than on most sites.
A small amount of resources on spam prevention (more than just CM) might move YA up a notch or two.
I’ve “met” a few good contacts in this “Yahoo! Answers Social Media Networking” world.
Hope to met some more some day.
Congrats to Yahoo! Answers for getting half way there
Happy 4th, and 5th place !
After asking one question on yahoo answers I have to say it is crap! Got 3 answers that have not been particularly helpful and yahoo keeps sending me mail to say I have new answers. When I open it up thinking I have a new answer, turns out it is one of the 3 unhelpful answers I got before! Garbage.
congratulations yahoo, you have created a wonderful site, give so much to internet users all for free and provide great entertainment, wisdom and enjoyment…in my book you should be number 1, kind regards.
Congrats Yahoo Answers Team. Been here almost since the start, and Yahoo Answers is a Daily visit for me.
Congratulations every one! I find always what I need.
Congrats on your popularity. I can see why it’s popular and also quite addicting. I began in late 2007 answering questions in the television and home theater categories, achieving a high percentage of correct answers, somewhere over 60%.
I’ve since switched to the politics category where my percentage of best answers is dwindling. Proof positive that you can’t please all the people all the time. In fact, the politics category is a bit of a blood bath but that’s a major part of its allure. What’s the point of sharing political information with people whom already agree with you?
I’ve made a great many friends here, from around the world, and would recomend Yahoo! Answers to anyone. Not interested in politics? There are dozens and dozens of other categories from calculus help to dating issues. Have fun!
Cool, 5th place. We should get a commemorative 500 points.
If Y!A is #5, what are the other four? Facebook for sure being #1.
It is really a great news…… We did not konw this. However I like this product of Yahoo like it’s mail service.
Congratulations! Yahoo Answers has been extremely helpful over the years. Keep up the good work.
Well they have got that wrong because at the moment the top 5 are:
Facebook
Twitter
Google+
Linked in
MySpace
In the future I would expect to see Twitter become number one and Google+ challenge Facebook as it is a very badly run company. I think MySpace will drop away further unless they can be bought out by one of the big social networks and their site completely overhauled. YA! is big but not as big as it thinks it is, and I am not sure whether you can really class it as a social network? I believe we will potentially see a Chinese social network become number one. Pinterest seems to be doing well at the moment too.
well, That is neat to know, but the part about 54 million unique users in the U.S. and 250 million worldwide, ok there are a lot for sure, but how many are actually people, and how many are spambots and sockpuppets, I know that is a bit cynical, but I know it is also true. It is fun, and you do get to meet people and learn stuff, but I really wonder, are some of those user truly unique?
Congratulations! Yahoo Answers is a wonderful site, it’s very useful, and i’m also learning ALOT of stuff while i’m on here. It’s a great site to get alot of knowledge. Thanks Yahoo Answers I dont know what i would of done without you!
Congradulations yahoo.. .
Wait!! Hold up. Pinterest beat Y!A???? How is that even possible?? That site is new, and has a limited user base. Audit!!! Foul!! Pinterest is skewing the numbers!!!
(Loyal to Y!)
I said Pinterest was doing well, I didn’t say it was beating YA!. I did say that FB, Twitter, G+, Linked In and My Space all beat YA! though and I am pretty sure there may be a Chinese social network, even Indian in the future that will surpass them. I am skeptical about the claim that YA! is 5th biggest. Maybe in the US it might be but not worldwide.
Congrats yahoo your site is very useful and is also entertaining I wont be surprised when your the biggest social media
Well done, Yahoo!
I love Yahoo! Answers. I couldn’t have hoped for a better helpful, informative site where the users are so friendly and helpful in their answers!
Nice. But I’m still hoping they would add a major update soon, like a higher level cap or something to add rewards to the loyal users.
This site can hardly be classed as a social network.
As one can get banned for “Chatting”.
I myself, think the ratings have gone down sence recent changes here at Y!A…
But, what do I know?
d;o)
well my list goes on like this in the future:
1.google+
2.Y!A!
3.facebook
4.twitter
5.my space will get a revive!
It’s all my speculations tho.
how time flies. congrats yahoo.
Hell yeah you yahoo people are my boys keep up the good work.
I love this site.
It’s like if a rhino gave birth to a whale, somehow. I mean, it’d be pretty weird and disgusting in some places, and you’d just have to question how such a thing is possible. I’m sure some more horrid folks would point out irrelevant things. But, it is also just medically fascinating, and even if the dynamics of it are close to impossible—
I don’t know where I’m going with this. Still…
Great site. Love ya. Stay golden, baby doll.
Frankly, considering Yahoo’s size and how long they’ve been around, #5 seems like a disappointing ranking.
Whoever doesn’t come here to relax, kill time, get points, manage stress, bio-tch or rant is here for research or gossip.
EVERYONE uses Yahoo Answers!! just google what ur looking for and type “Yahoo Answers”behind it and you have knowledge in a click.
If Yahoo Answers is # 5 in world then WHY on Earth would they be trying to improve their format . We all know that the Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down format is part of what brought us here .
Grats yahoo on this achievement. You’re still one of the worst websites to get factual information though (proven study not opinion). Try working on that next please!
i love yahooanswers.com. it’s a gift from Allah SWT for me…! alhamdulillah! thanks for being there! love ya!
Yahoo started out in 2005 with serious users, it was a true place to ask questions and get helpful answers. Y!A reached his highest popularity in 2008 with hundreds of thousands of questions asked each day which is why they had a few glitches due to overload. As the trolls invaded in 2008 and more of them started reporting questions and answers, more people started getting suspended due to report abuse by these trolls. By 2010, the popularity continued to decline due to the troll invasion of 2008. To this day there are now less people on Y!A then ever before and also less trolls than before. Y!A has improved report abuse complaints and still maintain a steady flow of questions which now number around 50,000 a day.
wow.. just yesterday i entered in this side i really found awesome.. best of luck..
Well that’s fantastic news for yahoo for a change… shame they stupidly did away with Yahoo Geocities before myspace or bebo or facebook or G+ existed
What an accomplishment! After 6 years, you made it this far. Congratulations!!!!!!! Keep going until you reach the top spot!
I feel so mainstream.
I have enjoyed answering what I think are serious Qs at YA and think it is more of an information site than a social site. Whatever.
But, lately I have spotted (and tried to report) users who apparently sign themselves up under several names, ask Qs on a specific topic and then come back in and answer them in what seems to be an effort to get legal clients or hits on a website. Some of the Qs and As are so similar to each other that they are probably written by the same person. I tried once recently to report this but never got a reply and nothing has changed. My use of YA will probably decrease because of this. I took things seriously but discovered that trolls are running the show on the subjects I am most knowledgeable about.
Hope this success will be continue. We love yahoo!answer. We will stay with yahoo!answer forever.
Can I simply say what a relief to find a person that genuinely
knows what they are discussing on the web.
You definitely realize how to bring an issue to light and make it important.
A lot more people ought to look at this and understand this side of your story.
It’s surprising you aren’t more popular given that you definitely possess the
gift.
happy to know.