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Monthly Active Users

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Again, on this graph you can see the three large circles dominating the rest. Only Twitter and Reddit battling it out for the fourth space seem to come close to the top 3. However, in Russia VK has a huge penetration, dominating the Russian speaking world as Facebook does globally.

World Map of Social Networks 2017

Take a look at the visualization showing the most popular social networks around the world. The world map of social networks 2017 is based on recent traffic data (January 2017). Check out the world map of social networks…

And wait, we have news for you! There is some indication that a new social network might take the to spot. YouTube might be taking over Facebook in unique monthly visitors:

YouTube – 2 – Compete Rank | 2 – Alexa Rank
Facebook – 3 – Compete Rank | 3 – Alexa Rank

If you want to find out more about how powerful video is predicted to become, check out this infographic!

You can also take a look at our interactive graph
Top 10 Social Networking Sites by Market Share of Visits [USA]

Top Social Networking Apps

With the growing popularity of mobile social networking, we have also created a list of 10 leading social apps globally. These apps are in fierce competition with the main social sites already!

Read next: How Powerful Will Video Marketing Become? [infographic]

The picture here is a bit different if we look at the brand names. WhatsApp and Messenger are in a close race for the top spot. But both of theses most popular social media apps are owned by Facebook so the competition may not be as fierce as between completely separate companies. Then there’s a lot of Asian apps and then on the sixth spot is Instagram, again owned by Facebook.

WhatsApp added another 100 million monthly active users reaching 1.3 billion and leaving Facebook Messenger behind with 1.2 billion monthly active users. Both of these mobile platforms are owned by Facebook.WeChat took the 3rd position as it passed QQ with more than 70 million monthly active users as QQ continues to slide.

Social Networking App

Monthly Active Users

Messenger(owned by Facebook)1,300,000,000WhatsApp (owned by Facebook)1,300,000,000WeChat938,000,000QQ Chat861,000,000Instagram (owned by Facebook)800,000,000QZone652,000,000Viber249,000,000LINE218,000,000Snapchat200,000,000YY122,000,000

Social networking apps are going to grow even bigger as people adopt them into their everyday lives. Here we have listed the mobile-first social media platforms. But the Facebook mobile app would dominate this list with 1.2+ billion monthly active users. As smartphones’ adoption continues, the share of the desktop use of social media platforms will fall .

For list of social media apps that are smaller check List of virtual communities with more than 100 million active users from Wikipedia.