Social media is one of the most powerful tools in the world right now. They are taking the world by storm. It has enabled people to get connected on a world wide basis and make their voices heard. A number of social media platforms have risen in the last decade and are continuing to do so. They are probably the biggest communication discovery of the past 15 years. Let's check out which social media platform commands more attention than the rest.
The Most Widely Used Social Media Platforms Around The World!
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On 25th August 2017
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#1 Facebook (1.9 Billion users)
Most of us already know that Facebook is the top social network on the web. It's a thriving beast of a social networking site on the web with about 2 billion monthly active users and more than one billion that log on daily (according to Facebook itself).
Statista shows that Facebook Messenger, with tons of cool features, is the second most popular messaging app behind WhatsApp. People use Facebook individually and by joining or setting up groups.
After failing to acquire Snapchat in 2013, Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 so that it could be the one that was on top of instant messaging.
#2 WhatsApp Messenger (1.2 Billion users)
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform instant messaging client for smartphones, PCs and tablets. The app relies on the Internet to send images, texts, documents, audio and video messages to other users that have the app installed on their devices. Launched in January 2010, WhatsApp Inc. was acquired by Facebook on February 19, 2004, for about $19.3 billion. Today, more than 1.2 billion people use the service to communicate with their friends, loved ones and even customers.
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#3 YouTube (1 Billion users)
YouTube — the largest and most popular video-based social media website — was founded on February 14, 2005, by three former PayPal employees. It was later bought by Google in November 2006 for $1.65 billion. YouTube has over 1 billion website visitors per month and is the second most popular search engine behind Google.
#4 Facebook Messenger (1 Billion users)
Messenger is focused on one use case – messaging. With Messenger, you can reach people instantly. It is just as fast as SMS but gives you the ability to express yourself in ways that SMS can’t. You can send stickers or videos, take selfies, chat with groups and make free calls. Updates to Messenger ship every two weeks so it continues to evolve and improve.
#5 WeChat (889 Million users)
WeChat is a voice and text communications app released in 2011 by Chinese investment holding company Tencent Holdings Limited, available for a wide variety of operating systems. As of Q1 2015, WeChat has 549m active monthly users with 1.1bn registered accounts worldwide. 100m of users are based outside of China. In 2014, WeChat restricted the number of friends a single user could have to 5,000.
#6 QQ (868 Million Users)
Coming in at number 6 is instant messaging software service QQ with 868 active million users. It was developed by Tencent in the year 2016. So it is fairly new to the scene, but within this short span of time, it has made its presence felt. It offers service that provides online social games, shopping, music, microblogging, movies and group and voice chat.
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#7 Instagram (600 Million Users)
Like Pinterest, Instagram is a visual social media platform. The site, launched on October 6, 2010, has more than 400 million active users and is owned by Facebook. Many of its users use it to post information about travel, fashion, food, art and similar subjects. The platform is also distinguished by its unique filters together with video and photo editing features. Almost 95 percent of Instagram users also use Facebook.
#8 QZONE (595 Million Users)
Coming in at number 8 is social networking website QZone with 550 active million users. It was launched in 2005 and created by Tencent. It allows users to keep diaries, listen to music, write blogs, watch videos and send photos. Qzone is customized to the individual member's taste. Users can set their Qzone background and select accessories based on their preferences.
#9 Twitter (319 Million Users)
Twitter is known as the real-time, public microblogging network where news breaks first. Most users loved it for its iconic 140-character limit and unfiltered feed that showed them absolutely everything in the form of tweets. Twitter has changed dramatically over the years, and today it's criticized a lot for going the way of looking and functioning almost exactly like Facebook. Besides Twitter Card integration, which now makes it easy to share all sorts of multimedia content in tweets, you can expect to see algorithmic timelines coming to Twitter soon as well.
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#10 Snapchat (100 Million Users)
Snapchat is an image messaging application software product that was created by Reggie Brown, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy when they were students at Stanford University. The app was officially released in September 2011, and within a short span of time they have grown immensely registering an average of 100 million daily active users as of May 2015. More than 18 percent of all social media users use Snapchat.
