Top 10 Social Media Sites Based on the Users

Social media is a form of technology that facilitates people by creating and sharing information, ideas, interests, and expressions. This is used very commonly nowadays by people. The platform allows people to keep in touch with friends and Extended family. People use social media to network and find career opportunities, connect with people across the globe with like-minded interests, and share their feelings, thoughts, and insights with other people online. Based on monthly active users in social media, the top 10 social media sites based on the users are:

     1- Facebook

Facebook is the first in the top ten social media sites with 2.9 billion monthly active users. This is an American multinational technology company and its headquarters of this company are in California. Doing business as Meta platform formally named as Facebook. This company was formed in February 2004. The Meta platform as the owner of Facebook is the 10^th largest company in the world in terms of revenue. The users who signup free on this website allow them to connect with people, work colleagues, and people they don’t know online.

     2- YouTube

YouTube is second in the top ten social media sites with 2.5 billion monthly active users. This is an American online video-sharing social media platform. The headquarters of this website/ platform are in San Bruno, California. It was launched in February 2005. Now Google is the owner of this company and is the second most visited website after a google search.

     3- WhatsApp

WhatsApp is Third in the top ten social media sites with 2 billion monthly active users. We know this is WhatsApp Messenger, or simply WhatsApp.  WhatsApp is internationally available and American company Meta Platforms owns this app. The services which this allows are sending text messages and voice messages, this can also make voice and video calls.

     4- Instagram

Instagram is the fourth in the top ten social media sites with 2 billion monthly active users. This free photo and video sharing app are available on iPhone and Android. People can share photos and videos and share them with there their friends. This was launched in October 2010. The American company Facebook Inc Later acquire Instagram, known as Meta platforms.

     5- TikTok

TikTok is fifth in the top ten social media sites with 1 billion monthly active users. This is a short video hosting service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. This was released in September 2016. After that, it becomes available worldwide after merging with the musical app and they become available worldwide as the TikTok app. This allows the user to create a short video by adding music in the background. Also, they can span up slow down, or edit the video with a filter.

     6- Snapchat

Snapchat is Sixth in the top ten social media sites with 538 million monthly active users. It is a multimedia instant messaging app. Snapchat Inc develops this service. In July, Snapchat had 293 million daily, active users. On average, people send more than 4 billion snaps each day. Snapchat is popular among younger generations particularly those below the age of 16. Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown create Snapchat.

     7 – Pinterest

Pinterest is Seventh in the top ten social media sites with 433 million monthly active users. Pinterest is an image-sharing app and the designers designed this to enable the saving and discovery of information on the internet. Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp create this site. This was founded in December 2009 about 12 years ago.  The headquarters of Pinterest is in San Francisco California.

     8- Reddit

Reddit is Eighth in the top ten social media sites with 444 million monthly active users. It is American news, content rating, and discussion website. The registered users can submit content to the site such as links and media which are then members vote them up or down. This was in June 2005. The headquarters of this website are in San Francisco, California. The founders of Reddit were roommates and students of the University of Virginia Steve Huffman, Aaron Swartz, and Alexis Ohanian.

     9- LinkedIn

LinkedIn or LinkedIn corporation is an American business and employment-oriented online service. This operates via websites and mobile apps. LinkedIn is Ninth in the top ten social media sites with 250 million monthly active users. They launch this platform in May 2003 and this was primarily people use it for professional networking and career development. This allows job seekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs. This allows members to create a professional profile and connect with other people on social media.

     10-Twitter

Twitter Inc. or Twitter is an American communication company. The headquarters of this company is in San Francisco California. This was formed in march 2006, 16 years ago. Twitter is Tenth in the top ten social media sites with 217 million monthly active users. The founders of Twitter are jack Dorsey Noah Glass Biz Stone and Evan Williams. People posts tweets that contain Media links or texts. These users post the messages from their profile and then the followers and searchable view them on Twitter.