List of virtual communities with more than 100 million active users
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This is a list of current virtual communities with more than 100 million active users. As of 2016[update], 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. |
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1 | [3] | 2+ billion[4] | 1.65 billionFebruary 2004 | United States | March 2016 | |
2 | YouTube | 1+ billion | [5] | 1+ billionFebruary 2005 | United States | May 2016 |
2 | [6] | 1+ billion[6] | 1+ billionJune 2011 | United States | February 2016 | |
4 | Facebook Messenger | [3] | 2+ billion[7] | 900 millionAugust 2011 | United States | April 2016 |
5 | Tencent QQ | [8] | 1+ billion[9] | 877 millionFebruary 1999 | China | March 2016 |
6 | [10] | 1+ billion[11] | 697 millionJanuary 2011 | China | December 2015 | |
7 | Tencent Qzone | [8] | 1+ billion[11] | 640 millionMay 2005 | China | December 2015 |
8 | Google+ | 418+ million | [12] | 418 millionJune 2011 | United States | December 2015 |
9 | [13] | 400+ million[13] | 400 millionOctober 2010 | United States | September 2015 | |
10 | [14] | 1+ billion[15] | 310 millionMarch 2006 | United States | March 2016 | |
11 | Skype | [16] | 750+ million[17] | 300 millionAugust 2003 | Estonia | March 2014 |
11 | Baidu Tieba | [18] | 1 billion[18] | 300 millionDecember 2003 | China | July 2014 |
13 | Viber | [19] | 606 million[19] | 249 millionDecember 2010 | Israel | June 2015 |
14 | Sina Weibo | [20] | 503+ million[21] | 261 millionAugust 2009 | China | March 2016 |
15 | LINE | [22] | 600 million[23] | 218 millionJune 2011 | Japan | March 2016 |
16 | YY | [24] | 773 million[25] | 122 millionDecember 2010 | China | June 2015 |
17 | [26] | 414 million[27] | 106 millionMay 2003 | United States | March 2016 | |
18 | Snapchat | [28] | 100+ million[28] | 100+ millionSeptember 2011 | United States | May 2015 |
19 | [29] | 100+ million[29] | 100 millionMarch 2010 | United States | September 2015 | |
19 | BBM | [30] | 190 million[31] | 100 millionFebruary 2007 | Canada | February 2015 |
19 | Telegram | [32] | 100+ million[32] | 100 millionAugust 2013 | Germany | February 2016 |
Note: An "active user" is defined as a user who has interacted with the community in the last 30 days while logged in.[33][34] 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
- List of social networking websites
- List of virtual communities with more than 1 million users
- List of virtual communities
- List of Internet forums
- List of social bookmarking websites
References
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