Taringa!
Taringa! is an Argentine-based social networking site geared toward Hispanophone users.
Type of site | Social network |
|---|---|
| Owner | Hernán Botbol and Matías Botbol |
| Created by | Fernando Sanz (Cypher) |
| URL | Taringa.net |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Free |
| Launched | 2004 |
Taringa! consists of a 27 million registered user base, according with Taringa's own metrics who create and share thousands of daily posts on general interest topics such as: life hacks, tutorials, recipes, reviews, and art.
The platform has a presence in every country in the Spanish-speaking world – its main markets are Argentina, Spain, Colombia and Chile. According to comScore statistics in 2013, it was the fourth most popular Latin American Social Network and the second one in traffic only after Facebook, since then the site's traffic has dramatically declined, dropping up to the 3898th place in the Alexa Ranking on December 30, 2020.
In February 2012, an article by Wired listed Taringa! as one of the foreign sites that "outshine Facebook", stating "there are still places where an also-ran or a homegrown alternative beats out the global hegemonies".
In September 2017, Taringa! suffered a database breach when almost 28 million database entries were leaked.