I don't think that's a big deal in the US. I wonder how much penetration Facebook has in Brazil. Is it as popular as in the US? You could almost do a Bay Area focused review site which required FB/Twitter/hn/bitcoin/AWS and have enough users available to be viable, but I'm pretty sure in Russia or China you couldn't require Facebook and still be viable. I only have one Brazilian FB friend, but that seems more a limitation of my social circle than an indication of FB's Brazilian success.
Essentially, they say that Brazil is overall second in number of Facebook users and that as of March 35% of people are on the service (vs 50.76% in the US.) Unfortunately, the post doesn't explicitly say what the ranking is for the per capita percentage, which would be most interesting for this thread.
Also, they have almost doubled the number of users over a one year period (which started a little after Facebook surpassed Orkut [which has always been famous for having a huge Brazillian presence.])
From what I've seen of review sites, being moderately exclusive on review authors early on is totally fine; you just want to make sure Google/etc. can bring readers in.
The overwhelming majority of people who would leave reviews on Glio have Facebook accounts -- their penetration in Brazil is very high as jaredsohn said.
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I don't think that's a big deal in the US. I wonder how much penetration Facebook has in Brazil. Is it as popular as in the US? You could almost do a Bay Area focused review site which required FB/Twitter/hn/bitcoin/AWS and have enough users available to be viable, but I'm pretty sure in Russia or China you couldn't require Facebook and still be viable. I only have one Brazilian FB friend, but that seems more a limitation of my social circle than an indication of FB's Brazilian success.
There are a lot of interesting statistics on Brazil's Facebook usage here (http://www.quintly.com/blog/2013/03/facebook-country-statist...).
Essentially, they say that Brazil is overall second in number of Facebook users and that as of March 35% of people are on the service (vs 50.76% in the US.) Unfortunately, the post doesn't explicitly say what the ranking is for the per capita percentage, which would be most interesting for this thread.
Also, they have almost doubled the number of users over a one year period (which started a little after Facebook surpassed Orkut [which has always been famous for having a huge Brazillian presence.])
FB is pretty popular here...
But if I was planning to make a site for reviews, I would not be putting barriers just to view it...
disclaimer: I don't have a facebook account...
From what I've seen of review sites, being moderately exclusive on review authors early on is totally fine; you just want to make sure Google/etc. can bring readers in.
The overwhelming majority of people who would leave reviews on Glio have Facebook accounts -- their penetration in Brazil is very high as jaredsohn said.