TOP 10 MOST POPULAR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS IN 2022
Social media plays a great role in individuals’ life. Being
said that, todays 21st century can’t be imagined without these sorts
of medias.
Social medias are like life giving fluids for youths; which
certainly has taken the attention span and decreased its level in humans. It
has become really hard to survive without this so-called life-giving fluid.
Despite of all of its cons, social media are really a great
boon for today’s world. It connects people all around the world. Information (a
basic human right) is actually preserved and promoted through social medias.
Thus, social media can be concluded to be a
platform where people share their ideas, knowledge, inventions, life moments,
etc. along with criticism, political expressions, hatred and many more.
fastest growing social media platforms 2021
SOME OF
THE MOST RAPID GROWING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ARE LISTED BELOW;
11. Facebook
USERS: 2.9 BILLION monthly active
users
FOUNDERS:
ESTABLISHED ON:
Facebook is the largest social media site, with more than
two billion people using it every month. This means that roughly 35% of the
world’s population are Facebook users. More than 300 million businesses (mostly
small businesses and medium) use Facebook tools like Facebook market place,
Facebook pages, and more than 7 million advertisers actively promote and out
scale their business on Facebook.
Facebook is so popular that it generates somewhere around $117.93 B turnover every year annually.
It is really very
easy to get started on Facebook by simply signing up (creating account). You
can create your own FB PAGE or simply advertise your business by contacting
various profiles or pages.
Facebook is all composed of text & images(primarily),
video content, and Stories which make it easier to get started.
USERS: 2.2 BILLION monthly active users
FOUNDER: Susan Wojcicki
ESTABLISHED ON: February 14, 2005
YouTube
is a video-sharing platform where users watch a billion hours of videos every
day along with tons of content uploaded every minute. Besides being the second
largest social media site, YouTube is often called the second largest search
engine after Google, its parent company which was purchased by google seeing
it’s potential.
YouTube is a great place considering to acquire any sorts of
knowledge in audio video form at free of cost or even to spread your business
through YouTube ads. You can use video marketing to promote your business a lot
through YouTube ads.
33. WhatsApp
USERS: 2 BILLION monthly active
users
FOUNDER: Will Cathcart
ESTABLISHED ON:
WhatsApp
is a messaging app used by people in over 180 countries. The initial purpose of
WhatsApp was to let people send text messages to their friend circle or family
across the globe. Sooner, people also used to communicate or discuss on their
business via WhatsApp. Today, WhatsApp’s business platform allows businesses or
business holder to provide customer support and share updates with customers
about their product and purchases which makes it great among the business
personnel.
Even you can use WhatsApp for promoting your business and
also to connect among the customers.
44. Instagram
USERS: 2 BILLION monthly active
users
FOUNDER: Kevin Systrom
As a visually described platform, Instagram is the place for
showcasing your products or services with photos or videos. On this app, you
can easily share a variety of content including photos, videos, Stories, reels,
live videos, and even the longer-form videos.
55. Facebook Messenger
USERS: 1.5 BILLION monthly active
users
FOUNDER:
ESTABLISHED ON: August 2011
Messenger
used to be a feature within Facebook, but since 2011, Messenger has been a
standalone app with expanded features. Different Businesses can advertise,
create chatbots, send newsletters, and more in messenger app too. These
features have given businesses a new way to engage and connect with their
customers. Regardless, it is a fact that Facebook and messenger are like two
wheels of cart without which the cart doesn’t exists. Also messenger play a
great role in establishing Facebook in where it is today. People commonly
contact with their friends through messenger.
66. TikTok
USERS: 1.3 BILLION monthly active users
FOUNDER: Zhang Yiming
ESTABLISHED ON: September 2016; 5 years ago
TikTok
(known as Douyin in China) is a short-form-video-sharing app. TikTok is also
responsible for decrease in attention span of human. For example; In internet
we always seek for something really crazy and entertaining in every 4 to 5
seconds. This is what we call decrease in attention span.
Despite only launching in 2017 it is one of
the fastest growing apps in the world and also recently overtook Google as the
most visited internet site in the world.
77. Snapchat
USERS: 1 BILLION monthly active users
FOUNDER: Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown
ESTABLISHED ON: September 16, 2011
Snapchat is
a mobile application generally developed for Android and iOS devices. Commonly,
users often call the app Snap.
Snapchat was
initially focused on private, person-to-person photo sharing, but you can now
use it for a range of tasks, including sending videos, live video chatting,
messaging, and sharing a chronological “story” that’s broadcasted to all your
followers. There’s even a designated “Discovery” area. Snapchat even lets you
store media in a private area.
88. Reddit
USERS: 1 BILLION monthly active users
FOUNDER: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, with Aaron Swartz .
ESTABLISHED ON: 2005
Reddit is a social media website and forum where content is controlled and promoted by site members by voting.
The site is made up of hundreds of sub-communities, known as subreddits. Each subreddit has a specific topic, such as technology, politics or music. The Reddit homepage, or front page, as it is commonly called, is composed of the most popular posts from each default subreddit. The default list is pre-determined and includes subtitles such as "pictures," "comics," "videos," "stories" and "games."
Users can also comment on posts after creating an account. Commenting is one of the key features of Reddit, and it is a great way for users to interact, without confusing text messages. Comments, like posts, can be voted on by users and edited accordingly. Comments with the highest number of votes remain at the top of the comment section and are called top comments
99. Pinterest
USERS: 1 BILLION monthly active users
FOUNDER: Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp,
ESTABLISHED ON: March 2010
Pinterest audiences are also very different. According to a social networking site, their forum is well-received by women in the United States, especially for thousands of years and mothers.
If you use Pinterest to blog, you can promote posts, product offerings, gain traffic to your blog, and engage with followers.
You can set up an account, sign in, and just post to other users, or start your own.
Using visual cues, social media is more focused on the concept of personal life, allowing you to share your interests and interests with others and find those of like-minded people.
They recently added a "Pinterest Lens" feature to their app. The lens allows you to get ideas inspired by whatever you point your Pinterest camera at.
Like many other social networks, on Pinterest people can do normal social media activities
110. TWITTER
USERS: 1 BILLION monthly active users
FOUNDER: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams
ESTABLISHED ON: March 21, 2006
In 2006, Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, came up with the idea - he would create an SMS-based social media platform where friends could get acquainted with reviewing situations. At first, Twitter was a very similar idea to sending messages.
The idea came up, in large part because of the consultation times with Dorsey's founder, Evan Williams.
In many ways, Twitter has unlimited meaning and unparalleled power. It can connect you with someone in Thailand as soon as it can introduce you to your nearest neighbor. You may choose to supplement your feed with industry experts, news sites, celebrities, comedians, or friends
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