Skyrock (social network site)

Skyrock, also known as Skyblog, was a social networking service (SNS) based in France that offered a free space on the web for users to create blogs, add profiles, and exchange messages with other registered members.

Skyrock.com began as a blogging site, Skyblog.com, launched as a side project of Skyrock radio station by its CEO Pierre Bellanger in December 2002.

[1] As of June 2008 Skyrock was ranked as the world's seventh largest social network with over 21 million visitors.

[4] Furthermore, certain American newspapers attempted to associate the breakout of the 2005 civil unrest in France to users of Skyblogs.

[citation needed] A few prominent French institutions created a Skyrock Blog as a preferred tool to communicate messages.