Top 20 Social Media Sites

Facebook tops the list of most often used social media. Here are the top social media sites on the internet, based on the number of active users

Facebook

With over 2.9 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the largest social media site on the internet. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and is primarily used for connecting with friends and family, sharing updates, and following news and events.

YouTube

With over 2.3 billion monthly active users, YouTube is the second-largest social media site on the internet. It was founded in 2005 and is primarily used for sharing and viewing videos.

With over 2 billion monthly active users, WhatsApp is a messaging app that allows users to send text, voice, and video messages, as well as make voice and video calls. It was founded in 2009 and acquired by Facebook in 2014.

Facebook Messenger

With over 1.3 billion monthly active users, Facebook Messenger is a messaging app that is integrated with Facebook. It allows users to send text, voice, and video messages, as well as make voice and video calls.

WeChat

With over 1.2 billion monthly active users, WeChat is a messaging app that is popular in China. It allows users to send text, voice, and video messages, as well as make voice and video calls, and it also has social networking features.

Instagram

With over 1 billion monthly active users, Instagram is a photo and video sharing app that is popular among younger users. It was founded in 2010 and acquired by Facebook in 2012.

TikTok

With over 1 billion monthly active users, TikTok is a short-form video sharing app that is popular among younger users. It was founded in 2016 by the Chinese company ByteDance.

QQ

With over 800 million monthly active users, QQ is a messaging app that is popular in China. It allows users to send text, voice, and video messages, as well as make voice and video calls, and it also has social networking features.

Sina Weibo

With over 500 million monthly active users, Sina Weibo is a microblogging platform that is popular in China. It allows users to post short messages, photos, and videos, and it also has social networking features.

With over 430 million monthly active users, Reddit is a social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. It allows users to submit content and vote on it, and it also has discussion forums on a wide variety of topics.

With over 310 million monthly active users, LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals. It allows users to create a professional profile, connect with other professionals, and share content related to their industry.

Twitter

With over 330 million monthly active users, Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows users to share short messages called tweets. It is popular for following news and events in real-time.

With over 400 million monthly active users, Pinterest is a visual bookmarking site that allows users to save and share images and videos related to their interests. It is popular for planning events, home decor, and fashion.

Snapchat

With over 280 million monthly active users, Snapchat is a messaging app that allows users to send disappearing photos and videos, as well as make voice and video calls. It is popular among younger users.

With over 500 million monthly active users, Telegram is a messaging app that focuses on privacy and security. It allows users to send text, voice, and video messages, as well as make voice and video calls.

Tumblr

With over 300 million monthly active users, Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to post multimedia content, including text, photos, and videos. It is popular among artists and creative professionals.

LINE

With over 187 million monthly active users, LINE is a messaging app that is popular in Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan. It allows users to send text, voice, and video messages, as well as make voice and video calls.

VKontakte (VK)

With over 97 million monthly active users, VKontakte is a social networking site that is popular in Russia and other Russian-speaking countries. It allows users to create profiles, share content, and connect with friends.

Discord

With over 150 million monthly active users, Discord is a messaging and voice chat app that is popular among gamers. It allows users to create servers, join communities, and chat with other users.

WeChat Work

With over 130 million monthly active users, WeChat Work is a messaging and collaboration app that is used by businesses in China. It allows users to send text, voice, and video messages, as well as share files and collaborate on projects.

Facebook's Impressive Mobile Line-Up

When Facebook filed for its initial public offering in early 2012, the company named the ongoing transition to mobile as one of the biggest risks to its future success. If the transition to mobile was indeed the biggest challenge in Mark Zuckerberg's young career as CEO of a billion-dollar company, he managed it admirably well.

Not only does Facebook generate most of its revenue on mobile devices now, the company also owns some of the most popular apps in the world. Just this week, Messaging VP David Marcus announced that Messenger now has 1.2 billion monthly active users, making Facebook's messaging sidekick the third of the company's platforms to reach that threshold. Facebook itself currently has 1.7 billion mobile users per months, its $19 billion acquisition WhatsApp reached 1.2 billion users in December 2016. And finally there's Instagram, which has more than 600 million users and is immensely popular with Millennials.

With a mobile line-up like this, Facebook appears to be in a position that all but guarantees sustained success in the mobile landscape.

Facebook's Impressive Mobile Line-Up

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