Hello, social networking lovers, what's up? Guys this is the first post in Social Media Tune blog. I noticed that social networking site lovers always wants to know about the ranking update of social media sites. Because social media sites are one of the most powerful online platform for both small and big business. That's why I am sharing this post about Top 7 Most Popular Social Networking Sites in the World Right Now. Hope it will help you to pick the best social networks to use.
YouTube
YouTube is the largest and free video sharing website in the world. But it also considers as a social networking site. Although, YouTube consider as a social networking site. But I think most of you guys amazed to see YouTube at first. Guys, you are watching true! According to Alexa ranking, now YouTube is the first positioned social media site. On February 14, 2005, three former PayPal employees founded this video based social networking website. But in November 2006, YouTube acquired by Google for 1.65 billion dollars. Another identification of YouTube is that It also counts as the second popular search engine website. About 1 billion unique visitors visit YouTube per month.
Facebook
Without any doubt,
Facebook is the largest and most powerful social networking site. It has a big community around the world. The world became closer because of Facebook. According to Alexa ranking, Facebook ranked the second position as a social media site. Although, a couple of days ago I got Facebook on Alexa as the largest social networking site. But anyway all the social media lover peoples consider Facebook as the number one social networking site. Facebook founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and his friend. Now in 2016, It has almost 1.59 billion monthly active users. Another statistics shows that about 1 million small and medium business enterprise use Facebook to promote their business.
Twitter
The largest microblogging and social networking website
Twitter founded on March 21, 2006. The unique identification of Twitter is that on this site you have to write your post within only 140 characters. That's why this site also called as a microblogging website. An amazing statistics of twitter is that almost 320 million monthly active users. Almost every celebrities and big brands use Twitter for their updates.
LinkedIn
One of the most popular social networking website is
LinkedIn. It is also popular as the largest networking site for professionals. There are 24 different languages and more than 400 million registered users in LinkedIn. Various peoples of different professions use this platform to connect with same profession's people. On December 14, 2002, LinkedIn started it's primary journey. But it officially launched 0n May 5, 2003.
Google Plus
Google Plus is the another part of Google like as YouTube. It is also considered as one of the popular social media websites. Most of Google Plus users think they are using it only for its SEO opportunities. Google launched this social media site on December 15, 2011.
Instagram
Instagram is a photo-based social networking website. It is owned by Facebook. As a report, 95% of Facebook users are also engaged with Instagram. Almost 400 million users use Instagram per month. In this site, many photo edition features also available. On October 6, 2010, Instagram was started.
Pinterest
One of the most growing and new social networking site is
Pinterest. It has digital bulletin boards system. Anyone can pin their content on this site. Pinterest launched in March 2010 and in 2015 100 million registered users achieved by Pinterest.
