Top
ten social networking sites in the world
1.
Facebook (World website Rank: 3 ) Social Networking Rank: 1
Facebook is a social network service and website
launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook,
Facebook has more than 500 + million active users. Facebook was founded by Mark
Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students.
2.
Twitter (World website Rank: 12) Social Networking Rank: 2
Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter
Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its
users to send and read other users’ messages called tweets. Tweets are
text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user’s profile page.
3.
LinkedIn (World website Rank: 30) Social Networking Rank: 3
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking
site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for
professional networking. LinkedIn had more than 80 + million registered users,
spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide
4. Google + (World
website Rank: 1) Social Networking Rank: 4
This site has 300 million monthly active users and is used
for relationship marketing. It has over a 53 percent positive interaction
between Google+ users and brands.
5. YouTube (World
website Rank: 2) Social Networking Rank: 5
YouTube is expected to generate $5.6 billion in gross revenue in
2016. Currently, there are 6 billion hours of video watched on YouTube per
month and 1 billion videos watched over mobile phones per day.
6. Pinterest (World website
Rank: 79) Social Networking Rank: 6
Pinterest marketing is another social media tool helping brands
to grow rapidly. There are over 70 million users
of Pinterest of which 80 percent are women and 20 percent
are men. Over 9 million users have connected their accounts to Facebook.
7. Instagram (World website
Rank: 14) Social Networking Rank: 7
Marketers know the usefulness of Instagram
marketing and use Instagram to market products and services. It is a
wonderful platform to share visual stories. There are more than 300 million monthly active users on
Instagram, of which 75 million are daily active users. Instagram is widely
being used for business marketing.
8. Tumblr (World website
Rank: 58) Social Networking Rank: 8
This microblogging platform is used for sharing photos, videos,
audio, quotes, text or anything that you’d like to market. It has more than 420
million users and 217 million blogs created, making it a favorite.
9. Flickr (World website
Rank: 362) Social Networking Rank: 9
This image and video hosting social network has over 3.5 million
images uploaded daily by users and offers massive online photo storage.
10. Reddit (World website
Rank: 6) Social Networking Rank: 10
Reddit is a social networking site used for entertainment
purposes, where registered members share content and direct links.
It has 174 million monthly unique visitors.
