List of virtual communities with more than 100 million active users

This is a list of current virtual communities with more than 100 million active users. As of 2016, 46% of the world's human population (or 3.4 billion) and 4.15 billion have, at the end of December 2017, used the services of the Internet within the past year—over 100 times more people than in 1995 (see Global Internet usage).[1][2]

Rank Name Company Active user accounts Date launched Country of origin Date of active user stat.
1 Facebook Facebook 2.23 billion[3] February 2004  United States June 2018
2 YouTube Google 1.9 billion[4] February 2005  United States July 2018
3 WhatsApp Facebook 1.5 billion[5] February 2009  United States January 2018
4 Messenger Facebook 1.3 billion[6] August 2011  United States September 2017
5 Instagram Facebook 1 billion[7] October 2010  United States June 2018
6 WeChat Tencent 1 billion[8] January 2011  China March 2018
7 QQ Tencent 868 million[9] February 1999  China December 2016
8 Qzone Tencent 638 million[10] May 2005  China December 2016
9 Tumblr Verizon 550 million[11] February 2007  United States January 2017
10 TikTok Bytedance 500 million[12] September 2016  China July 2018
11 Weibo Sina 340 million[13] August 2009  China March 2017
12 Twitter Twitter 335 million[14] March 2006  United States June 2018
13 Reddit Reddit 330 million[15] June 2005  United States April 2018
14 Snapchat Snap Inc. 300 million[16] September 2011  United States June 2017
15 Skype Microsoft 300 million[17] August 2003  Estonia  Sweden  Denmark March 2016
16 Tieba Baidu 300 million[18] December 2003  China August 2016
17 Viber Rakuten 260 million[19] December 2010  Japan February 2018
18 LinkedIn Microsoft 250 million[20] May 2003  United States January 2018
19 Google+ Google 212 million[21] June 2011  United States April 2015
20 LINE Naver 203 million[22] June 2011  Japan  South Korea September 2017
21 Telegram Telegram 200 million[23] August 2013  Russia March 2018
22 Pinterest Pinterest 200 million[24] March 2010  United States September 2017
23 imo PageBites 200 million[25] February 2010  United States July 2018
24 BBM Blackberry 100 million[26] February 2007  Canada February 2015

Note: An "active user" is defined as a user who has interacted with the community in the last 30 days while logged in.[27][28] This metric is different from monthly unique visitors, which includes unregistered readers who are only consumers and not creators of content. See also monthly active users.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Number of Internet Users (2016) - Internet Live Stats".
  2. ↑ "World Stats". Internet World Stats. Miniwatts Marketing Group. 2015-11-30.
  3. ↑ https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/
  4. ↑ "YouTube Now Has 1.9 Billion Monthly Active Users". NDTV Gadgets360.com. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  5. ↑ "WhatsApp hits 1.5 billion monthly users. $19B? Not so bad". Tech Crunch.
  6. ↑ "Facebook Messenger Day hits 70M daily users as the app reaches 1.3B monthlies". 14 September 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "Instagram hits 1 billion monthly users, up from 800M in September". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  8. ↑ https://technode.com/2018/03/05/wechat-1-billion-users//
  9. ↑ "Tencent 腾讯 - Products & Services". www.tencent.com. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  10. ↑ "Tencent's platforms performance in 2016 (WeChat, QQ, Qzone, Video, Browser, etc)". 23 March 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  11. ↑ WebHits.io (2017-02-09). "Review of the Top 10 Social Networks ranked by number of active users 2017". Medium. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  12. ↑ "Douyin reaches 500 million monthly active users worldwide". 2018-07-18.
  13. ↑ "Weibo now has more users than Twitter". Tech In Asia. 12 June 2017.
  14. ↑ Spangler, Todd (2018-07-27). "Twitter Posts Strong Q2 Earnings, but Monthly Users Drop by 1 Million Amid Cleanup Effort". Variety. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  15. ↑ "Global social media ranking 2018 | Statistic". Statista. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  16. ↑ Constine, Josh. "Snapchat growth slowed 82% after Instagram Stories launched - TechCrunch". Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  17. ↑ "Skype Connection Hub Ads Provide Increased Scale for Marketers". Microsoft. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014.
  18. ↑ "Baidu Struggles With Medical Business Fallout". 2016-08-08.
  19. ↑ "26 Amazing Viber Stats". DMR. 2015-01-08. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  20. ↑ "LinkedIn - Quarterly Earnings". LinkedIn. 1 June 2016.
  21. ↑ "Hard Numbers for Public Posting Activity on Google Plus". Stone Temple. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  22. ↑ "LINE's (LN) CEO Takeshi Idezawa on Q3 2017 Results - Earnings Call Transcript | Seeking Alpha".
  23. ↑ "200,000,000 Monthly Active Users". Telegram. 22 March 2018.
  24. ↑ "Celebrating the 200 million people of Pinterest". Pinterest. 14 September 2017.
  25. ↑ "imo free video calls and chat for Android and iPhone - click to download". imo. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  26. ↑ "BBM Seeing Billions of Ad Requests Per Month". N4BB. 27 March 2015.
  27. ↑ "Company Info". fb.com.
  28. ↑ The Street. "Is Facebook Lying About 900 Million Users?". Forbes.
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