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Taringa! is a social network geared toward Latin American users.
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, News, Sports, Technology, Reviews, Art, and more.
The platform has a presence in every country in the Spanish-speaking world - its main markets are Argentina, , Spain, Colombia, Chile, Peru and the US Latino community.According to comScore statistics, it is the 4th most popular Latin American Social Network and the second one in traffic only after Facebook. in Argentina as it receives 75 million unique visitors per month.
In February 2012 an article by Wired Magazine 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".