Irish network — 800,000 users of Bebo website

THERE are currently up to 800,000 Irish people using social networking site Bebo — and it is second only to Google as the most widely used website in Ireland.

That is according to the founders of Bebo, Michael and Xochi Birch.

It now has almost 28 million users concentrated almost exclusively in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand and Australia.