10. Baidu Tieba - Baidu Tieba is the largest Chinese
communication platform provided by the Chinese search engine company,
Baidu. It is an online community of 300,000,000 users, bound tightly
with internet search services, one of the main business of Baidu.
9. Twitter - Twitter
is an online social networking service that enables 320,000,000 users
to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are
unregistered can only read them.
8. Instagram -
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social
networking service that enables its 400,000,000 users to take pictures
and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, as
well as through a variety of other social networking platforms, such as
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr.
7. Tumblr - Tumblr
is one of the most difficult to use social networking platforms, but
it’s also one of the most interesting sites with 555,000,000 users. The
platform allows several different post formats, including quote posts,
chat posts, video and photo posts as well as audio posts, so you are
never limited in the type of content that you can share.
6. Qzone - Qzone
is a social networking website which was created by Tencent in 2005. It
allows 653,000,000 users to write blogs, keep diaries, send photos,
listen to music, and watch videos. Users can set their Qzone background
and select accessories based on their preferences so that every Qzone is
customized to the individual member's taste.
5. WeChat - WeChat
is a cross-platform instant messaging service developed by Tencent in
China, first released in January 2011. It is one of the largest
standalone messaging apps by monthly active users. As of May 2016,
WeChat has over a 706,000,000 created accounts, 700 million active users
with more than 70 million outside of China.
4. QQ - Tencent
QQ, popularly known as QQ, is an instant messaging software service
developed by a Chinese company named Tencent Holdings Limited. QQ also
offers a variety of services, including online social games, music,
shopping, microblogging, movies, and group and voice chat.
3. Facebook Messenger - Facebook
Messenger, sometimes abbreviated Messenger, is an instant messaging
service and software application which provides text and voice
communication. Integrated with Facebook's web-based Chat feature and
built on the open MQTT protocol, Messenger lets Facebook users chat with
friends both on mobile and on the main website.
2. WhatsApp - WhatsApp
Messenger is a cross-platform instant messaging client for smartphones,
PCs and tablets. The app relies on the Internet to send images, texts,
documents, audio and video messages to other users that have the app
installed on their devices.
1. Facebook - This is the biggest social media network on the Internet, both in terms
of total number of users and name recognition. Founded on February 4,
2004, Facebook
has within 12 years managed to accumulate more than 1,650,000,000 users and 1.59 billion monthly
active users and this automatically makes it one of the best mediums
for connecting people from all over the world with your business. It is
estimated that more than 1 million small and medium-sized businesses use
the platform to advertise their business.
