The following is a list of most popular social networks worldwide as of August 2021, ranked based on number of active users in millions.
FACEBOOK-2853
Is an American online social media and social networking service,it is owned by Facebook, Inc.
Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz , Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes were the founders-2004, its name comes from the face book directories often given to university students in America. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other universities in North American and, since 2006, anyone over 13 years old. As of 2020, Facebook claimed 2.8 billion monthly active users.
YOUTUBE-2291
YouTube (Not YouTube channel);-is a video sharing and social media platform, it is owned by Google. Launched in February 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is the second most visited website, with more than 01 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute.
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WhatsApp, is an American freeware, cross-platform centralized instant messaging and voice-over-IP service owned by Facebook, Inc. It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content. WhatsApp’s client application runs on mobile devices but is also can be reached from desktop computers, as long as the user's mobile device remains connected to the Internet while they use the desktop app. The service requires a cellular mobile telephone number to sign up. In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app targeted at small business possessor, called WhatsApp Business, to allow companies to communicate with customers who use the standard WhatsApp client.
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Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. In 04/2012, Facebook acquired the service for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with pre-approved followers. Users can browse other users' content by locations and tags and view trending content. Users can like photos and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed.
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Facebook Messenger (a.k.a Messenger) is an American instant messaging app and platform developed by Facebook, Inc. Originally developed as Facebook Chat in 2008, the company revamped its messaging service in 2010, and subsequently released standalone iOS and Android apps in August 2011 and standalone Facebook Portal hardware for Messenger-based calling in Q4 2018. Later on, Facebook has launched a dedicated website interface (Messenger.com), and separated the messaging. functionality from the main Facebook app, allowing users to use the web interface or download one of the standalone apps. In April 2020, Facebook officially released Messenger for Desktop, which is supported on Windows 10 and macOS and distributed on Microsoft Store and App Store respectively.
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WeChat (Chinese:- 微信; pinyin: Wēixìn (About this soundlisten); lit. 'micro-message') is a Chinese multi-purpose instant messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent, released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018, with over 1 billion monthly active users. WeChat has been described as China's "app for everything" and a "super app" because of its wide range of functions. WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, sharing of photographs and videos and location sharing.
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TikTok, known in China as Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn), is a video-sharing focused social networking service owned by Chinese company ByteDance. It hosts a variety of short-form user videos, from genres like comedy, dance and education, with durations from 15 seconds to three minutes.It is an international version of Douyin, originally released in the Chinese market in 09/2016. TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it became available worldwide only after merging with another Chinese social media service, Musical.ly, on 2 August 2018.
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Tencent QQ (Chinese: 腾讯QQ), also known as QQ, is an instant messaging software service and web portal developed by the Chinese tech giant Tencent. QQ offers services that provide online social games, music, shopping, microblogging, movies, and group and voice chat software. It is the world's 4th most visited website, according to Alexa. As of 04/2014, over 199 million simultaneous online QQ users were recorded. At the end of 03/2020, there were 767 million active QQ accounts.
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Telegram is a cross-platform, cloud-based instant messaging (IM) system. The service also provides end-to-end encrypted video calling,VoIP, file sharing and several other features. It was launched for iOS on 14-08-2013 and Android in 10/2013. The servers of Telegram are distributed worldwide to decrease data load with five data centers in different regions, while the operational center is based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Various client apps are available for desktop and mobile platforms including official apps for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux (although registration requires an iOS or Android device and a working phone number). There are also 02 official Telegram web twin apps – WebK and WebZ– and numerous unofficial clients that make use of Telegram's protocol. All of Telegram's official components are open source, with the exception of the server which is closed-sourced and proprietary.
SINA WEIBO-530
Sina Weibo (Nasdaq: WB) (新浪微博) is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website. Launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it is one of the biggest social media platforms in China, with over 446 million monthly active users as of third quarter of 2018. The platform has been a huge financial success, with surging stocks, lucrative advertising sales and high revenue and total earnings per quarter .At the start of 2018, it surpassed the US$30 billion market valuation mark for the first time.
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Snapchat is an American multimedia instant messaging app and service developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. One of the principal features of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are usually only available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients. The app has evolved from originally focusing on person-to-person photo sharing to presently featuring users' "Stories" of 24 hours of chronological content, along with "Discover," letting brands show ad-supported short-form content. It also allows users to keep photos in the "my eyes only" which lets them keep their photos in a password-protected space. It has also reportedly incorporated limited use of end-to-end encryption, with plans to broaden its use in the the coming days.