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  1. Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and WhatsApp are the most popular social networks worldwide, each with at least two billion active users.

  2. Global social networks ranked by number of users 2024. Most popular social networks worldwide as of April 2024, ranked by number of monthly active users (in millions)

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    • Social Media Started in The Early 2000s
    • In Rich Countries, Almost All Young People Use Social Media
    • Some Perspective on How Fast and Profound These Rapid Changes Are

    MySpace was the first social media site to reach a million monthly active users – it achieved this milestone around 2004. This is arguably the beginning of social media as we know it.1 In the chart, we plot monthly active users across various platforms since 2004. Some large social media sites, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit, have been aroun...

    From a back-of-the-envelope calculation, we know that, if Facebook had 2.3 billion users in 2019, then at least 30% of the world was using social media.2This is just an average – usage rates were much higher for some world regions, specifically for some population groups. Young people tend to use social media more frequently. In fact, in rich count...

    The percentage of US adults who use social media increased from 5% in 2005 to 79% in 2019. Even on a global stage, the speed of diffusion is striking: Facebook surged from covering around 1.5% of the world population in 2008 to around 30% in 2018.5 How does this compare to the diffusion of other communication technologies that make part of our ever...

  4. Monthly active users Other metrics 1 Facebook: Meta Platforms United States: 2004 3.070 billion: 2.11 billion daily active users: 2 YouTube: Alphabet Inc. United States: 2005 2.504 billion: 3 WhatsApp: Meta Platforms United States: 2009 2 billion: Had 1 billion daily active users when it had 1.3 billion monthly active users [citation needed] 4

  5. Jan 31, 2024 · For example, in the instant messaging world, Telegram now claims more than 800 million monthly active users, while Facebook Messenger hovers around a billion users. And in social networks, Instagram now has more than 2 billion users, while in China, Weibo – previously known as “Sina Weibo” – now has more than 600 million monthly active ...

  6. May 18, 2023 · The number of social media users worldwide has swelled to a record 4.9 billion people globally. What’s more, this number is expected to jump to approximately 5.85 billion users by 2027. [1]

  7. Jul 11, 2023 · In 2005, just 5% of Americans used a major social platform; by 2021, this number increased to 72%, according to findings from the Pew Research Center. Globally it's estimated that 4.89 billion people are using a form of social media in 2023, according to statistics from Statista.

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