Last 3 Months of Orkut announced by Google

 

 

In a blog post announcing the termination of Orkut, Paulo Golgher, Engineering Director Google wrote:

Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut’s growth, we’ve decided to bid Orkut farewell (or, tchau). We’ll be focusing our energy and resources on making these other social platforms as amazing as possible for everyone who uses them.

Orkut service will shut down on September 30, 2014 ─ until then there is no impact on the current users, but no new registrations are allowed. Users can export their profile data, posts and photos using Google Takeout until September 2016. Orkut users can also connect their profiles to Google+ and export their photos albums to Google+ Photos.