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 2016, 46% of the world's human population (or 3.4 billion) has used the services of the Internet within the past year—over 100 times more people than were using it in 1995 (see Global Internet usage).[1][2]

List

Rank Name Registered users Active user accounts Date launched Country of origin Date of active user stat.
1 Facebook 2+ billion[3] 1.79 billion[4] February 2004  United States September 2016
- Facebook Messenger 2+ billion[3] 1 billion[5] August 2011  United States July 2016
2 WhatsApp 1+ billion[6] 1 billion[6] August 2009  United States February 2016
3 YouTube 1+ billion[7] 1 billion[7] February 2005  United States February 2015
4 Tencent QQ 1+ billion[8] 899 million[9] February 1999  China June 2016
5 WeChat 1+ billion[10] 806 million[9] January 2011  China June 2016
- Tencent Qzone 1+ billion[8] 652 million[11] May 2005  China June 2016
6 Instagram 500+ million[12] 500 million[12] October 2010  United States  Brazil June 2016
7 KuGou 800+ million[13] 450+ million[14] 2004[14]  China
8 Twitter 1+ billion[15] 313 million[16] March 2006  United States March 2016
9 Google+ 3+ billion[17] 300 million[18] June 2011  United States February 2016
10 Skype 750 million[19] 300 million[20] August 2003  Estonia March 2014
11 Baidu Tieba 1.5 billion[21] 300 million[21] December 2003  China August 2016
12 Sina Weibo 503+ million[22] 297 million[23] August 2009  China September 2016
13 Viber 754 million[24] 249 million[24] December 2010  Israel June 2015
14 LINE 600 million[25] 218 million[26] June 2011  Japan March 2016
15 YY 773 million[27] 141 million[28] December 2010  China June 2015
16 Snapchat 110+ million[29] 110+ million[29] September 2011  United States December 2015
17 LinkedIn 467 million[30] 106 million[30] May 2003  United States September 2016
18 BBM 190 million[31] 100 million[32] February 2007  Canada February 2015
19 Pinterest 100+ million[33] 100 million[33] March 2010  United States September 2015
20 Telegram 100+ million[34] 100 million[34] August 2013  Germany February 2016
21 Spotify 100+ million[35] 100+ million[35] October 2008  Sweden June 2016

Note: An "active user" is defined as a user who has interacted with the community in the last 30 days while logged in.[36][37] 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".
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  5. ↑ "Thank You! ♥ Messenger". Facebook newsroom. 20 July 2016.
  6. 1 2 "One billion - WhatsApp Blog".
  7. 1 2 "YouTube Reportedly Still Unprofitable, Even With 1 Billion Monthly Users".
  8. 1 2 "QQ International on the App Store on iTunes".
  9. 1 2 Millward, Steven (17 August 2016). "WeChat reaches 800m active users, but it's close to the bamboo ceiling". Tech in Asia. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  10. ↑ Tracey Xiang (22 January 2015). "WeChat Reaches 1.1B Registered Accounts, with 440M Regular Users". TechNode. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Tencent - 2016 First Quarter Results [PDF file]" (PDF). 2016-05-18.
  12. 1 2 "Instagram Today: 500 Million Windows to the World". Instagram.
  13. ↑ Zen Soo (July 15, 2016). "Tencent to merge QQ Music service with China Music Corp to create streaming giant". South China Morning Post. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  14. 1 2 Jubb, Nathan (October 19, 2016). "The Future of Music Streaming Lies in China's Small Cities". Sixth Tone. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Millions Of Twitter's 'Active Users' Don't Actually Do Anything". Business Insider. 6 Jan 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  16. ↑ "About Twitter, Inc.". Twitter.
  17. ↑ "Google+ Growth".
  18. ↑ "Google+: Worth It or a Waste of Time?". SocialMediaToday. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  19. ↑ "Ten years of Skype video: yesterday, today and something new… – - Skype Blogs". Skype Blogs.
  20. ↑ "Skype Connection Hub Ads Provide Increased Scale for Marketers". Microsoft.
  21. 1 2 "Baidu Struggles With Medical Business Fallout". 2016-08-08.
  22. ↑ Tan, Vanessa (2013-11-07). "Sina Weibo enters Twitter's turf in Southeast Asia. Suicidal or genius? (Startup Asia preview)".
  23. ↑ Perez, Bien (22 November 2016). "Chinese microblogging giant Weibo beats estimates with strong third quarter". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  24. 1 2 "Rakuten, Inc.: Earnings Releases (2016) < Earnings Releases". Rakuten, Inc. 1 June 2016.
  25. ↑ "Line reaches 30 million users in India, up from 10 million a year ago". Tech In Asia. 20 Oct 2014.
  26. ↑ "LINE Corporation Announces 2016 Q1 Earnings". LINE Corporation. 1 June 2016.
  27. ↑ "YY Reports Second Quarter 2014 Unaudited Financial Results". YY. 6 August 2014.
  28. ↑ "YY Reports Second Quarter 2016 Unaudited Financial Results". YY. 17 August 2016.
  29. 1 2 "Snapchat Series F". TechCrunch. 26 May 2016.
  30. 1 2 "LinkedIn - Quarterly Earnings" (PDF). LinkedIn. 30 September 2016.
  31. ↑ "CES 2015: BlackBerry Unveils IoT Platform, Device Prices on AT&T, Momentum for BBM and New Smartwatch App". Blackberry. 7 Jan 2015.
  32. ↑ "BBM Seeing Billions of Ad Requests Per Month". N4BB. 27 March 2015.
  33. 1 2 "Pinterest crosses user milestone of 100 million". New York Times. 17 September 2015.
  34. 1 2 "100,000,000 Monthly Active Users". Telegram. 23 February 2016.
  35. 1 2 "Spotify has over 100 million active users". THE VERGE. 20 June 2016.
  36. ↑ "Company Info". fb.com.
  37. ↑ The Street. "Is Facebook Lying About 900 Million Users?". Forbes.
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