Hello everyone ! So here is my new article on “Top 10 Social Media Platform in 2019“.
Social media has taken the world by storm. According to a recent data, a whopping 3.46 Billion people are active social media users, which is 79% of the total internet users and 45% of the total world’s population. With such a big footprint, Social Media Management is something you can no longer ignore. So here is the list of the top 10 social media platforms to help you choose which ones to be on.
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Top 10 Social Media Platform in 2019
1. Facebook
Monthly Active Users (MAUs) – 2.23 Billion
Founded – 2004
The largest social media platform in the world, Facebook helps you in staying in touch with your friends, family and colleagues. It is a free platform that allows you to create a profile, upload photos and videos, send messages, etc to your peers.
2. YouTube
Monthly Active Users (MAUs) – 1.9 billion
Founded – 2005
Youtube is owned by Google and is the largest video platform in the world. More than 500 hours of videos are uploaded on Youtube every minute. Also, users combined watch more than a billion hours of videos everyday.It is also the second largest search engine after Google. It allows users to search and see the videos on any topic in the world. Also, it offers recommendations which keep the users hooked
on.
3. WhatsApp
Monthly Active Users (MAUs) – 1.5 billion
Founded – 2009
The most popular chat app is used by 1.5 billion people in the world and is owned by Facebook. It gives users the ability to communicate with individuals and groups.
Nowadays, it also supports calling.
4. Messenger
Monthly Active Users (MAUs) – 1.3 billion
Founded – 2008
It is the second largest messaging platform after Whatsapp. It started as Facebook Chat inside the Facebook website, but slowly emerged as a standalone app. It allows users to communicate with their friends on Facebook.
5. WeChat
Monthly Active Users (MAUs) – 1.06 billion
Founded – 2011
It is also a chat app which supports messages and calling, just like Whatsapp. It was built by Tencent and has its largest user base in China.
6. Instagram
Monthly Active Users (MAUs) – 1 billion
Founded – 2010
Instagram is a popular social networking app based around sharing photos and videos, owned by Facebook. It allows you to capture photos from the camera and make them look beautiful using the filters it has. You can also upload photos from your gallery.
7. QQ
Monthly Active Users (MAUs) – 861 million
Founded – 1999
It is a chat based social media platform. It allows you to communicate with other users using text, voice and video. Owned by Tencent, it’s major user base belongs to China. It can also translate your chats to other languages.
8. Qzone
Monthly Active Users (MAUs) – 632 million
Founded – 2005
Qzone is a social network, based in China. It is owned by Tencent. Users can share photos, watch videos, listen to songs, write blogs, maintain diaries, etc.. It also empowers you to choose the accessories and customize the look and feel of your QZone profile.
9. Tik Tok
Monthly Active Users (MAUs) – 500 million
Founded – 2016
Tik Tok is the latest addition to this list and it is gaining popularity very fast. Its parent company is ByteDance which is based in China. It has a unique concept where users can upload short music videos and share it with other users. It is mostly used by
teenagers.
10. Tumblr
Monthly Active Users (MAUs) – 400 million
Founded – 2007
Tumblr is a blend of social media and micro-blogging. According to their website, they support text, photos, chats, audio and video. It was recently acquired by
Automattic (the company behind WordPress).
So, now that you have an idea about the best social networking platforms, We hope you can select the social media platform(s) you wanna pay attention to and become the next big thing.
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I prefer Facebook more than all other platforms as it allows to get more reach. Well, thanks for this information. I will try to use all these platforms for the marketing of my content
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