20 Famous Social Media Platforms You Need to Know Them

List of 20 Social Media platforms

"Here is the quick list of 20 most famous Social Networking sites and Social Media platforms, arranged in decreasing order of  their active users per month."

1. Facebook

Facebook is an American social media and social networking service company based in California. Its website was launched in 2004 by its founder cum CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. It is available in 140 languages. Messenger is its products. It has more than 30 employees. Currently, Facebook has 2.2 billion monthly active users.

2. Whatsapp

WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Facebook. Whatsapp was released in 2009. The application allows the sending of text messages and voice calls, as well as video calls, images and other media, documents, and user location as well. The application runs on smartphones but is also accessible from desktop computers by its 'Whatsapp Web' feature. Currently, Whatsapp has 1 billion monthly active users.

3. YouTube

YouTube is an America-based video sharing platform created in February 2005. It is one of the subsidiaries of Google. Every minute more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube. Every day 1 billion content being watched. Users can share videos, comment on them and like them.

4. WeChat

WeChat is a Chinese freeware and proprietary multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app. It was released in 2011. Currently, WeChat has over 1 billion monthly active users. It was also described as one of the world's most powerful apps by Forbes.

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5. Tencent QQ

Tencent QQ is an instant messaging software service developed by the Chinese company Shenzhen Tencent. QQ also offers online social games, music,  microblogging, movies, shopping, and group and voice chat software. QQ was released in February 1999. Available in 7 languages including Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Laotian. Currently, QQ has 850 million monthly active users.

6. Tumblr

Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007. The service allows its users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private. Tumblr was managed and owned by Yahoo Inc. from 2013 to 2017. Now it is owned by Oath Inc. Currently, Tumblr has 555 million monthly active users.

7. TikTok

TikTok is a video sharing social media where users can create video, share video and live broadcast video. It was launched in 2016. ByteDance is the parent company. Musically, a similar platform as TikTok was also owned by the same parent. In 2017, ByteDance merges Musically and TikTok under the single as TikTok. Currently, it has 500 million monthly active users.

8. Sina Weibo

Sina Weibo is a Chinese microblogging website. Launched in 2009, it is one of the most popular social media platforms in China. Sina Weibo has over 445 million monthly active users. It is available in Chinese and English.

9. Instagram

Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking point owned by Facebook, Inc. It was launched in October 2010. The app allows users to upload photos and videos to the service, which can be edited with various filters, and organized with tags and location information. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations, and view trending content. Users can "like" photos, and follow other users to add their content to a feed. It is available in 36 languages(Android) and 29 languages (iOS). Currently, Instagram has 400 million monthly active users.

10. Twitter

Twitter, Inc. is an American online news and social networking service on which users can post and interact with messages known as "tweets". I was launched in 2006. Tweets were restricted to 280 characters. Currently, Twitter has 335 million monthly active users.

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11. Skype

Skype is a telecommunication application software launched in 2003 that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console via the Internet. Skype additionally provides instant messaging services. Users can transmit both text and video messages and can exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video. Skype allows video conference calls. It is available in 108 languages. Currently, it has 300 million monthly active users.

12. Pinterest

Pinterest is a multi-media sharing point. It enables its user to share pictures, GIFs and videos. It was launched in 2010. Currently, Pinterest has 250 million monthly active users.

13. LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business and employment-centric service owned by Microsoft. It was launched in 2003. It is mainly used by professional networking including employer posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs. It is currently operating in 200 countries with 250 million monthly active users. It is available in 24 languages.

14. Viber

Viber is a Japanese instant messaging and voice over IP (VoIP) application. In addition to instant messaging, it allows users to exchange media such as images and video records. It was released in 2010. It is available in 30 languages. Currently, Viber has 250 million monthly active users.

15. Reddit

Reddit is social news, web content rating and discussion forum launched in 2005. Registered users can submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down by other members. Currently, Reddit has 234 million monthly unique users.

16. Snapchat

Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app. It was launched in 2011. It enables you photo sharing, instant messaging and video chat. Pictures and Messages are usually available for a short time. It has 200 million monthly active users.

17. Telegram

Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service launched in 2013. Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio, and documents. It is available in 14 languages. Currently, Telegram has 200 million monthly active users.

18. Quora

Quora is a question-answer platform where users can either ask questions or answer question. It was launched in 2010. Initially, users can access Quora only by visiting their website but now it is available on iOS and Android. Quora claims that it has 190 million monthly active users.

19. Flickr

Flickr is image hosting and video hosting service, launched in 2004. This service is widely used by blogger to host image. It is traditionally available in Chinese. Flickr claims that is 87 million monthly active users.

20. Foursquare

Foursquare is a navigation app which shows recommendations of places to go, to its user based on their location. It was launched in 2009 and available in 12 languages. Currently, Foursquare has 60 million monthly active users.

Here given the list of  20 popular social media platforms and social networking sites starting from Facebook and ending to Foursquare. Hope you guys find it interesting. Please share, comment and subscribe.