The Planet’s 24 Largest Social Media Sites, And Where Their Next Wave Of Growth Will Come From

The Planet’s 24 Largest Social Media Sites, And Where Their Next Wave Of Growth  Will Come From

Read more:  http://www.businessinsider.com/a-global-social-media-census-2013-10#ixzz2jgZtdv4f

“It’s no longer all about Facebook.”

“Here are 10 of the most surprising facts from our first annual global media  census:

• Facebook still has the largest user population  at 1.16 billion monthly active users. But it’s seldom-discussed that YouTube is close behind with 1 billion  MAUs.
• China’s giant social media network, Qzone, is running in third place at 712 million total users. It’s twice as large  as global social messaging app WhatsApp, and nearly three times as large as  Twitter.
• Three of the world’s top 10 social properties are messaging  platforms: WhatsApp, LINE, and WeChat.
• IPO-bound Twitter is smaller than many of its  less-known rivals, including Tumblr, WhatsApp, and LINE.
• Eighty-six percent of Facebook‘s users  are outside the United States.
• Facebook has 95 million users in China  (despite the fact that it’s officially blocked), 68 million in India, 42 million  in Brazil. Taking these population together, they’re twice as large as  Facebook’s U.S. population of 100 million.
• Nearly 25% of LinkedIn‘s users are in India.  In fact, there are more Indians than Americans on LinkedIn and Google+.
• Despite being blocked in China, the major social networks still have many  millions of Chinese active users who use various stratagems to access these  services. Google+ has 100 million users in China, Twitter has 80 million, and YouTube has 60  million.
• LinkedIn, the only major social network  that is not blocked in China, has over 20 million users in the  country.
• Asia-Pacific overall has more active social media users than any region, and  Southeast Asian markets are off the charts when it comes to mobile social media  usage. Eighty-two percent of Thai smartphone owners access social  media daily on their phones.“

Read more:  http://www.businessinsider.com/a-global-social-media-census-2013-10#ixzz2jgaQeOgY

Stephen