Path social network adding a million new users every week

According to AppData reports, Path has seen tremendous growth lately and is registering a million new users every week for past few weeks. The new explosion of growth, according to Dave Morin, co-founder of Path is due to increase in adoption in Asian markets and also in markets like Venezuela, Central and South America. The beauty of Path is that unlike most social networks, a user is allowed to have a maximum of 150 contacts. This makes Path a more private social network and one need not go through endless sea of posts. Another major reason for the growth is the launch of Path 3.0 which added messaging capabilities. Path is now among the top applications on Apple’s appstore and Google Play store with 60% of users coming from iOS.

“In March, when we released Path 3.0, which included messaging, we saw quite a bit more growth. By January or February we were seeing 50% more traffic with existing users due to the search feature (which was released in December). Once we released Path 3.0, which had some improvements around helping people invite their friends, we’ve really started to grow in new and different markets. It started with Venezuela, growing to something like 500,000 users over a weekend. Then it started to move across Spanish-speaking populations like Central America and Columbia. We also rolled out search in Spanish, and it went up the peninsula into Mexico, and jumped into the Caribbean Then we saw an even bigger spike in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, and then it moved into the Spanish-speaking population of the U.S. We’re seeing a lot of pockets that were highly-connected to Puerto Rico.”, said, Dave Morin, Co-founder of Path.

We do hope that Path continues the current growth and grows into a major social network. If you have never tried Path, you can download the application if you have iOS or Android smartphone the application is extremely easy to setup. Wall Street Journal did a full blown interview with Dave Morin and the full interview can be accessed by clicking on ‘source’ link below

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