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 November 2015, 46.4 percent of the world's human population (or 3.3 billion) has used the services of the Internet within the past year—over 100 times more people than were using it in 1995.[1][2]

List

Rank Name Registered users Active user accounts Date launched Country of origin Date of user stat.
1 Facebook 2+ billion[3] 1.59 billion[4] February 2004  United States December 2015
2 Youtube 1+ billion[5] 1 billion[6] February 2005  United States February 2015
3 WhatsApp 1+ billion[6] 1 billion[6] June 2011  United States February 2016
- Facebook Messenger 2+ billion[3] 900 million[7] August 2011  United States April 2016
3 Tencent QQ 1+ billion[8] 853 million[9] February 1999  China December 2015
4 WeChat 1+ billion[10] 697 million[9] January 2011  China December 2015
- Tencent Qzone 1+ billion[8] 640 million[9] May 2005  China December 2015
5 Google+ 3+ billion[11] 540 million[12] June 2011  United States October 2013
7 Twitter 1+ billion[13] 305 million[14] March 2006  United States December 2015
8 Skype 663+ million[15] 300 million[16] August 2003  Estonia March 2014
9 Baidu Tieba 1 billion[17] 300 million[17] December 2003  China July 2014
10 Viber 606 million[18] 249 million[18] December 2010  Israel June 2015
11 Sina Weibo 503+ million[19] 236 million[20] August 2009  China December 2015
12 LINE 600 million[21] 215 million[22] June 2011  Japan December 2015
13 YY 773 million[23] 122 million[24] December 2010  China June 2015
14 Snapchat 100+ million[25] 100+ million[25] September 2011  United States May 2015
15 BBM 190 million[26] 100 million[27] February 2007  Canada February 2015
16 Pinterest 100+ million[28] 100 million[28] March 2010  United States September 2015
17 LinkedIn 414 million[29] 100 million[29] May 2003  United States December 2015
18 Telegram 100+ million[30] 100 million[30] August 2013  Germany February 2016
19 Instagram 400+ million[31] 100 million[31] October 2010  United States September 2015

Note: An "active user" is defined as a user who has interacted with the community in the last 30 days while logged in.[32][33] 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

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  2. ↑ "World Stats". Internet World Stats. Miniwatts Marketing Group. 2015-11-30.
  3. 1 2 Hern, Alex (24 April 2012). "Facebook profits drop".
  4. ↑ "Company Info - Facebook Newsroom". Facebook.
  5. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6487324/youtube-profit-1-billion-monthly-users-4-billion-revenue
  6. 1 2 3 "One billion - WhatsApp Blog".
  7. ↑ "Facebook Messenger launches scannable profile codes". The Verge. 7 April 2016.
  8. 1 2 "QQ International on the App Store on iTunes".
  9. 1 2 3 "Tencent - 2015 Fourth Quarter and Annual Results [PDF file]" (PDF). 2016-03-17.
  10. ↑ Tracey Xiang (22 January 2015). "WeChat Reaches 1.1B Registered Accounts, with 440M Regular Users". TechNode. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Google+ Growth".
  12. ↑ Gundotra, Vic (29 October 2013). "Google+ Hangouts and Photos: save some time, share your story". Google Blog. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  13. ↑ "Millions Of Twitter's 'Active Users' Don't Actually Do Anything". Business Insider. 6 Jan 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  14. ↑ "About Twitter, Inc.". Twitter.
  15. ↑ "Skype grows FY revenues 20%, reaches 663 mln users". Telecom Paper. 2011-03-08.
  16. ↑ "Skype Connection Hub Ads Provide Increased Scale for Marketers". Microsoft.
  17. 1 2 "百度贴吧发力官方平台". 2014-07-21.
  18. 1 2 "Rakuten, Inc.: Earnings Releases (2015) < Earnings Releases". Rakuten, Inc. 6 August 2015.
  19. ↑ Tan, Vanessa (2013-11-07). "Sina Weibo enters Twitter’s turf in Southeast Asia. Suicidal or genius? (Startup Asia preview)".
  20. ↑ "Weibo Reports Fourth Quarter 2015 Results". Weibo Corp. 20 March 2016.
  21. ↑ "Line reaches 30 million users in India, up from 10 million a year ago". Tech In Asia. 20 Oct 2014.
  22. ↑ "LINE Corporation Announces 2015 Q4 Earnings". LINE Corporation. 28 January 2016.
  23. ↑ "YY Reports Second Quarter 2014 Unaudited Financial Results". YY. 6 August 2014.
  24. ↑ "YY Inc.". YY. 30 June 2015.
  25. 1 2 "Snapchat says its 100 million users are watching 2 billion mobile videos a day". Quartz. 26 May 2015.
  26. ↑ "CES 2015: BlackBerry Unveils IoT Platform, Device Prices on AT&T, Momentum for BBM and New Smartwatch App". Blackberry. 7 Jan 2015.
  27. ↑ "BBM Seeing Billions of Ad Requests Per Month". N4BB. 27 March 2015.
  28. 1 2 "Pinterest crosses user milestone of 100 million". New York Times. 17 September 2015.
  29. 1 2 "LinkedIn - Quarterly Earnings". LinkedIn. 29 February 2016.
  30. 1 2 "100,000,000 Monthly Active Users". Telegram. 23 February 2016.
  31. 1 2 "Estimating Instagram’s Actual Population Statistics — Medium". Medium.
  32. ↑ "Company Info". fb.com.
  33. ↑ The Street. "Is Facebook Lying About 900 Million Users?". Forbes.
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